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say it: GLER-ing
glaring is an adjective meaning "shining intensely". It is pronounced /ˈɡlɛɹɪŋ/ — GLER-ing. It carries 2 recorded senses.
“a crying shame”
“an egregious lie”
“flagrant violation of human rights”
“a glaring error”
“gross ineptitude”
“gross injustice”
“rank treachery”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for glaring come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.