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Glaring vs Glowing - What's the difference?

glaring | glowing |

As adjectives the difference between glaring and glowing

is that glaring is reflecting with glare while glowing is that glows or glow.

As verbs the difference between glaring and glowing

is that glaring is while glowing is .

As nouns the difference between glaring and glowing

is that glaring is the act of giving a glare while glowing is the action of the verb glow.

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

    glowing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (wikipedia glowing) (en noun)
  • The action of the verb glow.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That glows or glow.
    • glowing embers
  • (figuratively) Full of praise.
    • He received glowing references from his previous employers.

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