Glaring vs Obvious - What's the difference?
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Reflecting with glare.
Blatant, obvious.
The act of giving a glare.
* (Herman Melville), Moby-Dick
(rare) A group of cats.
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Easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
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As adjectives the difference between glaring and obvious
is that glaring is reflecting with glare while obvious is easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.As a verb glaring
is present participle of lang=en.As a noun glaring
is the act of giving a glare.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.
Synonyms
* (group of cats) clowderHyponyms
* (group of cats) kindle (group of kittens) English collective nounsobvious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Down towns, passage=It is not obvious , to economists anyway, that cities should exist at all. Crowds of people mean congestion and costly land and labour. But there are also well-known advantages to bunching up. When transport costs are sufficiently high a firm can spend more money shipping goods to clusters of consumers than it saves on cheap land and labour.}}