verb
- Look at with fixed eyes.
- usage: "The students stared at the teacher with amazement"
- Fixate one's eyes.
- usage: "The ancestor in the painting is staring down menacingly"
- synonyms: stare
adjective
- Used of eyes. ( open and fixed as if in fear or wonder)
- usage: "staring eyes"
- synonyms: agaze
- Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers.
- usage: "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth"
- synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, stark, thoroughgoing, utter, unadulterated
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
| APA | WordNet. (2010). staring. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/staring/definitions/1184313 |
| Chicago | WordNet. 2010. "staring" http://smartdefine.org/staring/definitions/1184313 (accessed September 20, 2026). |
| Harvard | WordNet 2010, staring, Smart Define, viewed 20 September, 2026, <http://smartdefine.org/staring/definitions/1184313>. |
| MLA | WordNet. "staring" 23 October 2010. Web. 20 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/staring/definitions/1184313> |