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Glaring vs Resplendent - What's the difference?

glaring | resplendent | Synonyms |

Glaring is a synonym of resplendent.


As adjectives the difference between glaring and resplendent

is that glaring is reflecting with glare while resplendent is shiny and colourful, and thus pleasing to the eye.

As a verb glaring

is .

As a noun glaring

is the act of giving a glare.

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

    resplendent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Shiny and colourful, and thus pleasing to the eye.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
  • , chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.}}
  • (label) Exhibiting the property of resplendency in Peano arithmetic.
  • See also

    * resplendid (misspelling) ----