Glaring vs Blinding - What's the difference?
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Reflecting with glare.
Blatant, obvious.
The act of giving a glare.
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(rare) A group of cats.
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Very bright (as if to cause blindness).
Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
Brilliant; marvellous.
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(neologism) To an extreme degree; blindingly.
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The act of causing blindness.
A thin coat of sand or gravel used to fill holes in a new road surface.
A thin sprinkling of sand or chippings laid on a newly tarred surface.
As adjectives the difference between glaring and blinding
is that glaring is reflecting with glare while blinding is very bright (as if to cause blindness).As verbs the difference between glaring and blinding
is that glaring is while blinding is .As nouns the difference between glaring and blinding
is that glaring is the act of giving a glare while blinding is the act of causing blindness.As an adverb blinding is
(neologism) to an extreme degree; blindingly.glaring
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- How could you miss this glaring error? It's right on page one!
Derived terms
* glaringly * glaringnessVerb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Take off thine eye! more intolerable than fiends' glarings is a doltish stare!
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.
