different between glaring vs unmitigated

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??l?????/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??l????/

Rhymes: -?????, -????

Adjective

glaring (comparative more glaring, superlative most glaring)

1. Reflecting with glare.
2. Blatant, obvious.

   How could you miss this glaring error? It's right on page one!

Derived terms

• glaringly
• glaringness

Translations

Verb

glaring

1. present participle of glare

Noun

glaring (plural glarings)

1. The act of giving a glare.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

     Take off thine eye! more intolerable than fiends' glarings is a doltish stare!

2. (rare) A group of cats.
   • 2010, Chuck Lorre et al., The Big Bang Theory, episode “The Zazzy Substitution”

     Leonard: You’re clearly upset about Amy being gone, and you’re trying to replace her with a bunch of cats.

     Sheldon: Clowder.

     Leonard: What?

     Sheldon: A group of cats is a clowder. Or a glaring. It’s the kind of thing you ought to know now that we have one.

Synonyms

• (group of cats): clowder

Hyponyms

• (group of cats): kindle (group of kittens)

Anagrams

• Garling, glargin

English

Etymology

From un- +? mitigated

Adjective

unmitigated (comparative more unmitigated, superlative most unmitigated)

1. Not mitigated.
2. (intensifier) Total, complete, utter.
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, ch. 12

     "You don't care if people think you an utter blackguard? You don't care if she and your children have to beg their bread?"

     "Not a damn."

     I was silent for a moment in order to give greater force to my next remark. I spoke as deliberately as I could.

     "You are a most unmitigated cad."

     "Now that you've got that off your chest, let's go and have dinner."

Translations

References

• “unmitigated”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.