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Glaring vs Crying - What's the difference?

glaring | crying |

As adjectives the difference between glaring and crying

is that glaring is reflecting with glare while crying is that demands action or attention.

As verbs the difference between glaring and crying

is that glaring is present participle of lang=en while crying is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between glaring and crying

is that glaring is the act of giving a glare while crying is action of the verb cry.

glaring

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Reflecting with glare.
  • Blatant, obvious.
    • How could you miss this glaring error? It's right on page one!

    Derived terms

    * glaringly * glaringness

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of giving a glare.
  • * (Herman Melville), Moby-Dick
    • Take off thine eye! more intolerable than fiends' glarings is a doltish stare!
  • (rare) A group of cats.
  • * 2010 , 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.

    Synonyms

    * (group of cats) clowder

    Hyponyms

    * (group of cats) kindle (group of kittens) English collective nouns

    crying

    English

    (wikipedia crying)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • That demands action or attention.
    • There is a crying need for more manual workers in this country.
  • That deserves rebuke or censure.
    • It is a crying shame that he managed to get away with that!

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Action of the verb cry .
    • Their constant cryings kept us awake!

    Verb

    (head)

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