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glareless

glareless adjective: that does not cause or exhibit any glare; characterized by diffuse light.

Adjective

glareless (comparative more glareless, superlative most glareless)

  1. That does not cause or exhibit any glare; characterized by diffuse light.
    • In units so completely glareless as these, it is surprising to note what a small amount of brightness difference is required to become noticeable and even distractingly annoying to a sensitive eye.1933, C.E. Ferree, G. Rand, “A Glareless Lighting Unit Adapted to the Classroom”, in The Nation's Schools, volume 12, page 50
    • They are also ignorant that a glareless headlight was designed, constructed, tested, sold, and used by many people over 40 years ago, and that the headlight industry has used deception and misinterpretations and other evasive means to keep those glareless headlights from the people, although...1962, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Hearings, page 324

Examples of glareless in a sentence

  • Windowless yet airconditioned, the buildings used thousands of glareless, fluorescent, and mercury vapor lights to create “daytime” 24 hours a day, seven days a week.2008, Gerrie Schipske, Rosie the Riveter in Long Beach:
  • Doors lined both walls now and the ceiling glowed with glareless, shadowless light.2010, Ben Bova, The Silent War:

Forms of glareless

comparativemore glareless
superlativemost glareless

Origin of glareless

From glare + -less.

Questions about glareless

What does glareless mean?
Glareless means that does not cause or exhibit any glare; characterized by diffuse light.
How do you use glareless in a sentence?
Windowless yet airconditioned, the buildings used thousands of glareless, fluorescent, and mercury vapor lights to create “daytime” 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
What part of speech is glareless?
Glareless is an adjective.

Words near glareless in the dictionary

  1. glare filter
  2. glare filters
  3. glareal
  4. glared
  5. glared daggers
  6. glareless
  7. glareolid
  8. glareolids
  9. glareous
  10. glareproof
  11. glares

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