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Staring vs Glaring - What's the difference?

staring | glaring |

As verbs the difference between staring and glaring

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

As nouns the difference between staring and glaring

is that staring is the act of one who stares while glaring is the act of giving a glare.

As an adjective glaring is

reflecting with glare.

staring

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who stares.
  • * (Herman Melville), Pierre
    • Then the bewilderingness of the old starings of the solitary old man and old woman, by the cracked hearth-stone of the desolate old house, in the desolate, round, open space

    Anagrams

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    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