The glaring headlights dazzled us for a moment.
Source: tatoeba (33961)
Glaring
//ˈɡlɛəɹɪŋ//
Synonyms for "glaring" (174 found)
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Closest matches (35)
Strong matches (52)
Related words (87)
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Adjective(11 words)
Adjective(1 words)
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Translations
45 translations across 17 languages.
Bulgarian
4 entries- ослепителен adj (reflecting with glare)
- фрапантен adj (blatant, obvious)
- явен adj (blatant, obvious)
- ярък adj (reflecting with glare)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 明顯 /明显 adj (blatant, obvious)
- 明顯的 /明显的 adj (blatant, obvious)
- 閃耀的 /闪耀的 adj (reflecting with glare)
Czech
1 entries- do očí bijící adj (blatant, obvious)
Finnish
3 entries- häikäisevä adj (reflecting with glare)
- räikeä adj (blatant, obvious)
- silmiinpistävä adj (blatant, obvious)
French
1 entries- évident adj (blatant, obvious)
German
4 entries- eklatant adj (blatant, obvious)
- grell leuchtend adj (reflecting with glare)
- hell strahlend adj (reflecting with glare)
- krass adj (blatant, obvious)
Hungarian
1 entries- csillogó adj (reflecting with glare)
Ingrian
2 entries- häikävä adj (reflecting with glare)
- häikävälliin adj (reflecting with glare)
Italian
4 entries- evidente adj (blatant, obvious)
- lampante adj (blatant, obvious)
- ovvio adj (blatant, obvious)
- palese adj (blatant, obvious)
Japanese
2 entries- 目立つ adj (blatant, obvious)
- 眩しい adj (reflecting with glare)
Korean
1 entries- 노골적인, 뻔한 adj (blatant, obvious)
Norwegian
1 entries- iøynefallende adj (blatant, obvious)
Portuguese
3 entries- gritante adj (blatant, obvious)
- reluzente adj (reflecting with glare)
- óbvio adj (blatant, obvious)
Russian
4 entries- вопию́щий adj (blatant, obvious)
- ослепи́тельный adj (reflecting with glare)
- очеви́дный adj (blatant, obvious)
- слепя́щий adj (reflecting with glare)
Spanish
4 entries- evidente adj (blatant, obvious)
- flagrante adj (blatant, obvious)
- garrafal adj (blatant, obvious)
- obvio adj (blatant, obvious)
Swedish
2 entries- bländande adj (reflecting with glare)
- uppenbar adj (blatant, obvious)
Volapük
1 entries- tulitik adj (reflecting with glare)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
The glaring light is hurtful to the eyes.
Source: tatoeba (50200)
The hospital has been sued as a result of a glaring oversight when doctors failed to notice a large tumour in a woman's X-ray.
Source: tatoeba (3674714)
How did you manage to overlook such a glaring error?
Source: tatoeba (4094240)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.