verb
- Look at with a fixed gaze.
- usage: "The girl glared at the man who tried to make a pass at her"
- Be sharply reflected.
- usage: "The moon glared back at itself from the lake's surface"
- synonyms: glare
- Shine intensely.
- usage: "The sun glared down on us"
- synonyms: glare
adjective
- Shining intensely.
- usage: "the blazing sun"; "blinding headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of sunlight"; "the glaring sun"
- Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible.
- usage: "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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