different between obvious vs glaringly

English

Etymology

16th century, from Latin obvius (“being in the way so as to meet, meeting, easy to access, at hand, ready, obvious”), from ob- (“before”) + via (“way”). In order to avoid an awkward form such as *obvy, the Latin ending -us was maintained in the form -ous (which is otherwise equivalent to Latin -osus).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??b.vi.?s/, (fast speech) /??.vi.?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??b.v??s/, /??.v??s/, (fast speech) /??v.j?s/
• Hyphenation: ob?vi?ous

Adjective

obvious (comparative more obvious, superlative most obvious)

1. Easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.

   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:obvious.

Antonyms

• unobvious
• non-obvious
• subtle

Derived terms

• obviously
• obviousness

Translations

See also

• clear
• evident
• manifest
• plain

Further reading

• obvious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• obvious in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

glaring +? -ly

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

glaringly (comparative more glaringly, superlative most glaringly)

1. In a glaring manner:
   1. (literally) With intense light.
      • 1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, Chapter 5,^[1]

        […] 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, Have Space Suit—Will Travel, New York: Ballantine, 1977, Chapter 7, p. 114,^[2]

        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. (figuratively) 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,^[3]

        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, Wuthering Heights, Chapter 22,^[4]

        ‘How can you lie so glaringly to the poor child?’ I called from the inside.

      • 1901, H. G. Wells, The Sea Lady, London: Methuen, 1902, Chapter 3, Part I, p. 72,^[5]

        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, Disgrace, Penguin, 2000, Chapter Three, p. 24,

        Her accent is glaringly Kaaps;

Synonyms

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

Translations