glare
glare is a 5-letter English word with 15 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To shine with a bright, dazzling light. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- intransitive verb. To shine with a bright, dazzling light.
- intransitive verb. To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely.
- intransitive verb. To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be ostentatiously splendid or gay.
- transitive verb. To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
- noun. A bright, dazzling light; splendor that dazzles the eyes; a confusing and bewildering light.
- noun. A fierce, piercing look or stare.
- noun. A viscous, transparent substance. See Glair.
- noun. A smooth, bright, glassy surface; as, a glare of ice.
- noun. Smooth and bright or translucent; -- used almost exclusively of ice; as, skating on glare ice.
- noun. an angry stare
- noun. a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted
"a glare of sunlight"
- noun. a focus of public attention
"he enjoyed being in the limelight"
"when Congress investigates it brings the full glare of publicity to the agency"
- verb. look at with a fixed gaze
"The girl glared at the man who tried to make a pass at her"
- verb. shine intensely
"The sun glared down on us"
- verb. be sharply reflected
"The moon glared back at itself from the lake's surface"
Synonyms
glower, blaze, brilliance, limelight, spotlight
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in glare:
alger, argle, elgar, ergal, garle, lager, large, regal
Common word forms
glared, glares, glaring, glareous, glareless
Words from these letters
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