glaringly

English edit

Etymology edit

glaring +‎ -ly

Pronunciation edit

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɛəɹɪŋli/, /ˈɡlɛəɹɪŋlɪ/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɛɹɪŋli/

Adverb edit

glaringly (comparative more glaringly, superlative most glaringly)

In a glaring manner:
1. (literally) With intense light.
  - 1947, Malcolm Lowry, chapter 5, in Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock:
    […] the light now on, now off, now on too glaringly, now too dimly, with the glow of a fitful dying battery—then at last to know the whole town plunged into darkness […]
  - 1958, Robert A. Heinlein, chapter 7, in Have Space Suit—Will Travel‎^[1], New York: Ballantine, published 1977, page 114:
    The ground was covered with snow, glaringly white even under that pinpoint Sun.
  - 2011, Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger’s Child, London: Picador, Part Four, Chapter 1:
    After dusk in Bedford Square you could see into the high first-floor windows of publishers’ offices, the walls of bookshelves and often a huddle of figures at a glaringly lit party.
2. (figurative) So as to be highly visible or obvious; so as to attract notice or attention.
  The error was glaringly obvious, yet nobody said anything about it.
  - 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, London: T. Payne & Son, and T. Cadell, Volume 4, Book 7, Chapter 9, p. 133,^[2]
    Cecilia was quite confounded by this speech; to have it known that Delvile had visited her, was in itself alarming, but to have her own equivocation thus glaringly exposed, was infinitely more dangerous.
  - 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter 22, in Wuthering Heights‎^[3]:
    ‘How can you lie so glaringly to the poor child?’ I called from the inside.
  - 1901, H. G. Wells, The Sea Lady‎^[4], London: Methuen, published 1902, Chapter 3, Part I, p. 72:
    To find the reporters hammering at their doors, so to speak, and fended off only for a time by a proposal that they should call again; to see their incredible secret glaringly in print, did indeed for a moment seem a hopeless exposure to both the Buntings and the Sea Lady.
  - 1999, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 3, in Disgrace, Penguin, published 2000, page 24:
    Her accent is glaringly Kaaps;

Synonyms edit

(so as to be highly obvious): blatantly, plainly; see also Thesaurus:obviously

Translations edit

in a glaring manner

Bulgarian: ярко (bg) (jarko)
Italian: palesemente (it)
Occitan: visiblament, clarament (oc), intensament