glaringly
/ˈɡlɛɹɪŋli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.37 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] the light now on, now off, now on too glaringly, now too dimly, with the glow of a fitful dying battery—then at last to know the whole town plunged into darkness […]"
- "The ground was covered with snow, glaringly white even under that pinpoint Sun."
- "After dusk in Bedford Square you could see into the high first-floor windows of publishers’ offices, the walls of bookshelves and often a huddle of figures at a glaringly lit party."
- "The error was glaringly obvious, yet nobody said anything about it."
- "1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, London: T. Payne & Son, and T. Cadell, Volume 4, Book 7, Chapter 9, p. 133, Cecilia was quite confounded by this speech; to have it known that Delvile had visited her, was in itself alarming, but to have her own equivocation thus glaringly exposed, was infinitely more dangerous."
- "‘How can you lie so glaringly to the poor child?’ I called from the inside."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɡlɛɹɪŋli/
- British English: /ˈɡlɛəɹɪŋli/
Inflected Forms
more glaringly (comparative)
most glaringly (superlative)