glaring

By surface analysis, glare +‎ -ing.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɛəɹɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɛɹɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ, -ɛɹɪŋ

glaring (comparative more glaring, superlative most glaring)

1. Reflecting with glare.
2. Blatant, obvious.

   How could you miss this glaring error? It's right on page one!

• glaringly
• glaringness

glaring

1. present participle and gerund of glare

glaring (plural glarings)

1. The act of giving a glare.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     Take off thine eye! more intolerable than fiends' glarings is a doltish stare!

2. (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.

• (group of cats): clowder

• (group of cats): kindle (group of kittens)

• Garling, glargin