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English
Pronunciation
Adjective
glaring (comparative more glaring, superlative most glaring)
- Reflecting with glare.
- Blatant, obvious.
- How could you miss this glaring error? It's right on page one!
Derived terms
Translations
blatant, obvious
- Bulgarian: явен (bg) (javen), фрапантен (bg) (frapanten)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 明顯/明显 (zh) (míngxiǎn), 明顯的/明显的 (míngxiǎn de)
- Czech: do očí bijící (cs)
- Finnish: silmiinpistävä (fi), räikeä (fi)
- French: évident (fr)
- German: krass (de), schreiend (de), eklatant (de)
- Italian: palese (it), ovvio (it), evidente (it), lampante (it)
- Japanese: 目立つ (ja) (medatsu)
- Korean: 노골적인, 뻔한 (nogoljeogin, ppeonhan)
- Norwegian: iøynefallende (no)
- Portuguese: óbvio (pt), gritante
- Russian: вопию́щий (ru) (vopijúščij) (crying, outrageous), очеви́дный (ru) (očevídnyj) (obvious), я́вный (ru) (jávnyj) (obvious)
- Spanish: evidente (es), obvio (es), garrafal (es), flagrante (es), palmario (es)
- Swedish: uppenbar (sv)
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Verb
glaring
- present participle and gerund of glare
Noun
glaring (plural glarings)
- The act of giving a glare.
- (rare) A group of cats.
- 2010, Chuck Lorre et al., The Big Bang Theory, episode “The Zazzy Substitution”
- Leonard: You’re clearly upset about Amy being gone, and you’re trying to replace her with a bunch of cats.
- Sheldon: Clowder.
- Leonard: What?
- Sheldon: A group of cats is a clowder. Or a glaring. It’s the kind of thing you ought to know now that we have one.
Synonyms
Hyponyms
- (group of cats): kindle (group of kittens)
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