glare

1. 1.

   look at with a fixed gaze

   “The girl glared at the man who tried to make a pass at her”

   Synonymsglower

   Broaderstare
2. 2.

   be sharply reflected

   “The moon glared back at itself from the lake's surface”

   Broaderreflect
3. 3.

   shine intensely

   “The sun glared down on us”

   Broadershine

   Narrowerbeat

Other forms of glare

plural

glares·

past tense

glared·

present participle

glaring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about glare

What does glare mean?

glare means "a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in glare?

glare has 1 syllable: glare. In IPA it is /ˈɡlɛɹ/.

What is another word for glare?

Close synonyms include blaze, brilliance, glower, limelight, spotlight. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is glare a common word?

glare is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.