glaring
/ˈɡlɛɹɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.31 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Reflecting with glare.
adj
Example Sentences
- "How could you miss this glaring error? It's right on page one!"
- "painted in glaring oranges and greens"
- "Take off thine eye! more intolerable than fiends' glarings is a doltish stare!"
- "I take therefore even the lurid glarings, which barbarian passions must have cast on whatever was barbarians' general view of things, as predestined awakeners of real intellect to them."
- "The young woman set a pot of coffee to boil, and things began to look more cheerful, when the old squaw was discovered sharpening an immense butcher-knife upon the stovepipe, with mutterings and glarings which evidently terrified her daughter, and threats in her own tongue against the intruders."
- "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."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɡlɛɹɪŋ/
- British English: /ˈɡlɛəɹɪŋ/