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Glare vs Dazzling - What's the difference?

glare | dazzling |

As nouns the difference between glare and dazzling

is that glare is an intense, blinding light while dazzling is the action of the verb to dazzle; dazzlement.

As verbs the difference between glare and dazzling

is that glare is to stare angrily while dazzling is present participle of lang=en.

As adjectives the difference between glare and dazzling

is that glare is smooth and bright or translucent; glary while dazzling is shining intensely.

glare

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (uncountable) An intense, blinding light.
  • * Dryden
    • the frame of burnished steel that cast a glare
  • Showy brilliance; gaudiness.
  • An angry or fierce stare.
  • * Milton
    • About them round, / A lion now he stalks with fiery glare .
  • (telephony) A call collision; the situation where an incoming call occurs at the same time as an outgoing call.
  • (US) A smooth, bright, glassy surface.
    • a glare of ice
  • A viscous, transparent substance; glair.

    • Verb

    (glar)
  • To stare angrily.
    • He walked in late, with the teacher glaring at him the whole time.
  • * Byron
    • an eye that scorcheth all it glares upon
  • To shine brightly.
    • The sun glared down on the desert sand.
  • * Dryden
    • The cavern glares with new-admitted light.
  • To be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring.
  • To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
  • * Milton
    • Every eye glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire.

    Derived terms

    * aglare * glaringly * glare filter

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (US, of ice) smooth and bright or translucent; glary
    • skating on glare ice

    Anagrams

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    dazzling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Shining intensely.
  • * , Episode 12, The Cyclops
    • The deafening claps of thunder and the dazzling flashes of lightning which lit up the ghastly scene testified that the artillery of heaven had lent its supernatural pomp to the already gruesome spectacle.
  • Splendid; brilliant
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=December 18 , author=Ben Dirs , title=Carl Froch outclassed by dazzling Andre Ward , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Oakland native Ward is now unbeaten in 25 fights and can now claim to be one of the top few pound-for-pound fighters on the planet after a technically dazzling display.}}
  • Superlative; astounding

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb to dazzle ; dazzlement
  • * 1837 , Minutes of the General Association of Massachusetts
    • Our organization secures the greatest amount of good unbalanced by accomplished evil of any known system, a good which resembles the sober hue of massive gold, rather than the splendid dazzlings of a baser metal.