glaring
UK/ˈɡlɛəɹɪŋ//ˈɡlɛɹɪŋ/
glaring adjective: reflecting with glare. Also the present participle and gerund of glare.
Adjective
glaring (comparative more glaring, superlative most glaring)
Noun
glaring (plural glarings)
- The act of giving a glare.
- Take off thine eye! more intolerable than fiends' glarings is a doltish stare!1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
- 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.1865, Sarah S. Hennell, Present Religion: as a Faith Owning Fellowship with Thought
- A group of cats.
- 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.2010, Chuck Lorre et al., The Big Bang Theory, episode “The Zazzy Substitution” - But as she knows, as Greville has come to accept, in a glaring of cats incidents considered 'dirty' to the human viewpoint are but an occurrence of nature to the feline. Sometimes it is caused by a skirmish for domination within the glaring, or territorial marking caused by an intruder, or as...2014, K.D. Knight, Eight Cats at Number Twenty Seven
- Leonard: You’re clearly upset about Amy being gone, and you’re trying to replace her with a bunch of cats.
Also used as
glaring is also the present participle and gerund of glare.
Examples of glaring in a sentence
- But as she knows, as Greville has come to accept, in a glaring of cats incidents considered 'dirty' to the human viewpoint are but an occurrence of nature to the feline.2014, K.D. Knight, Eight Cats at Number Twenty Seven:
- Paige often envisioned herself as an old woman, dying alone in her house, lying undiscovered until her glaring of cats had eaten her remains.2016, Mary Cruz, The Ashes of Murderous Lies, AuthorHouse:
- Quickly, a glaring of cats raced through the door.2013, Sarah J. Pepper, Death of the Mad Hatter, page 3:
- Issobel's cat was willful -- sneaking into the smith's house in the middle of the night with a glaring of local cats, one of which the man believed was Isobel herself.2023, Allyson Shaw, Ashes and Stones, Pegasus Books:
Synonyms of glaring
Forms of glaring
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more glaring |
| superlative | most glaring |
| Noun | |
| plural | glarings |
Origin of glaring
By surface analysis, glare + -ing.
Words formed from glaring
Phrases with glaring
Words that rhyme with glaring
Questions about glaring
- What does glaring mean?
- Glaring means reflecting with glare.
- How do you use glaring in a sentence?
- But as she knows, as Greville has come to accept, in a glaring of cats incidents considered 'dirty' to the human viewpoint are but an occurrence of nature to the feline.
- What part of speech is glaring?
- Glaring can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce glaring?
- Glaring is pronounced /ˈɡlɛəɹɪŋ/ (UK).
Words near glaring in the dictionary
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