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1 Glaring -- rank: 1000

Glaring definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary GLA'RING, ppr. Emitting a ... luster. 1. Clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced; as a glaring crime. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: shining intensely ... sun"; "blinding headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of sunlight"; "the glaring sun" [syn: blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary] 2: conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying ... shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery" [syn: crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank] Merriam Webster's adjective Date: 14th century ...

2 Flagrant -- rank: 702

... back. [The foregoing senses are unusual.] 4. Flaming in notice; glaring; notorious; enormous; as a flagrant crime. WordNet (r) 3.0 ... shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery" [syn: crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank] Merriam Webster's adjective Etymology: Latin flagrant-, flagrans ... morality < flagrant violations of human rights > • flagrantly adverb Synonyms: flagrant, glaring, gross, rank mean conspicuously bad or objectionable. flagrant applies usually ... nor be condoned < flagrant abuse of the office of president >. glaring implies painful or damaging obtrusiveness of something that is conspicuously wrong, faulty, or improper < glaring errors >. gross implies the exceeding of reasonable or excusable ...

3 Glare -- rank: 644

... i. To shine with a clear, bright, dazzling light; as glaring light. The cavern glares with new admitted light. 1. To ... shine with excessive luster; to be ostentatiously splendid; as a glaring dress. She glares in balls, front boxes and the ring ... glared down on us" Merriam Webster's I. verb (glared; glaring) Etymology: Middle English glaren; akin to Old English glæs glass ... v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glared; p. pr. & vb. n. Glaring.] [OE. glaren, gloren; cf. AS. gl[ae]r amber, LG ... on glare ice. [U. S.] Collin's Cobuild Dictionary (glares, glaring, glared) 1. If you glare at someone, you look at ... old woman glared at him... Jacob glared and muttered something. ...glaring eyes. VERB: V at n, V, V-ing 2. ...

4 Glaringly -- rank: 526

... notoriously. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adv 1: in a glaring manner; "it was glaringly obvious" Merriam Webster's adverb see glaring Webster's 1913 Dictionary Glaring Glar"ing, a. Clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced; as, a glaring crime. -- Glar"ing*ly, adv. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary see glaring

5 Soft -- rank: 526

... soft slumbers. 17. Mild to the eye; not strong or glaring; as soft colors; the soft coloring of a picture. The ... soft breeze" [syn: balmy, mild, soft] 19: not brilliant or glaring; "the moon cast soft shadows"; "soft pastel colors"; "subdued lighting ... a sharp or acid taste c. (1) not bright or glaring ; subdued (2) having or producing little contrast or a relatively ... 5 (of a light or colour etc.) not brilliant or glaring. 6 (of a voice or sounds) gentle and pleasing. 7 ... Milton. 4. Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring; pleasing to the eye; not exciting by intensity of color ...

6 glary -- rank: 470

... sun"; "blinding headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of sunlight"; "the glaring sun" [syn: blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary] Merriam Webster's adjective (glarier; -est) Date: 1578 having a dazzling brightness ; glaring Webster's 1913 Dictionary Glary Glar"y, a. Of a dazzling luster; glaring; bright; shining; smooth. Bright, crystal glass is glary. --Boyle.

7 Gross -- rank: 470

... shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery" [syn: crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank] n 1: twelve dozen [syn: gross, 144] 2 ... 5. Enormous, flagrant, shameful, outrageous, grievous, aggravated. 6. Palpable, manifest, glaring. 7. Whole, total, entire, aggregate. II. n. 1. Whole, total ... gain, gain by, gains, gate, gate receipts, gaudy, get, gettings, glaring, gleanings, graceless, grained, grainy, granular, granulated, grave, great, grievous, gritty ...

8 Run -- rank: 470

... joy the line immortal run, each sire impress'd and glaring in his son. 30. To pass from one state or ... with joy the line immortal run, Each sire impressed, and glaring in his son. --Pope. (g) To go back and forth ... with joy the line immortal run, Each sire impressed, and glaring in his son. --Pope. (g) To go back and forth ... with joy the line immortal run, Each sire impressed, and glaring in his son. --Pope. (g) To go back and forth ...

9 Garish -- rank: 405

... vivid < garish colors > < garish imagery > b. offensively or distressingly bright ; glaring 3. tastelessly showy ; flashy Synonyms: see gaudy • garishly adverb • garishness ... Dictionary of English Synonyms a. [Written also Gairish.] Flaunting, staring, glaring, showy, gaudy, tawdry, flashy. Moby Thesaurus Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, bedazzling ... flaming, flaring, flash, flashy, flaunting, florid, fulgent, fulgid, fulsome, gaudy, glaring, glary, gorgeous, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, harsh, high-flowing, high-flown ...

10 Dazzling -- rank: 405

... sun"; "blinding headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of sunlight"; "the glaring sun" [syn: blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary] Webster's 1913 Dictionary Dazzle Daz"zle, v. t ... brilliant, devastating, divine, effulgent, flamboyant, flaming, fulgent, fulgid, garish, glamorous, glaring, glary, glorious, glowing, gorgeous, heavenly, killing, magnificent, mind-boggling, obscuring ...

11 Rank -- rank: 405

... shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery" [syn: crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank] 4: complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes ... gamy, garrison, gauge, gedeckt, gemshorn, genteelness, gentility, give an appreciation, glaring, gloppy, go ahead of, go before, go in advance, gradate ...

12 Egregious -- rank: 405

... shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery" [syn: crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank] Merriam Webster's adjective Etymology: Latin egregius, from ... fabulous, fancy, fantastic, fetid, filthy, flagrant, formidable, foul, fulsome, gigantic, glaring, gluttonous, grievous, gross, hateful, heinous, high, horrible, horrid, hyperbolic, hypertrophied ...

13 Blinding -- rank: 405

... sun"; "blinding headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of sunlight"; "the glaring sun" [syn: blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary] Oxford Reference Dictionary n. 1 the process of covering ... eyelessness, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flashy, flaunting, fulgent, fulgid, garish, gaudy, glaring, glary, glaucoma, gross, gutta serena, hoodwinking, infernal, lack of vision ...

14 Soften -- rank: 320

... and soften'd all be spoke. 8. To make less glaring; as, to soften the coloring of a picture. 9. To ... and softened all he spoke. --Dryden. (g) To make less glaring; to tone down; as, to soften the coloring of a ...

15 plain -- rank: 320

... visible, obvious, clear, unmistakable, apparent, certain, palpable, conspicuous, notable, notorious, glaring, patent, open, evident, distinct. 4. Unequivocal, unambiguous, distinct, explicit, intelligible ... tongued, friendly, fruit belt, fundamental, garden, garden-variety, genuine, glade, glaring, glib, graceful, gracile, gracious, graphic, grass roots, grassland, grazing region ...