n. 1 dazzle, brilliance, brightness, splendour, resplendence, radiance, effulgence, lustre, shine, flame, flare, blaze We had to shade our eyes from the glare 2 frown, dirty or nasty or black look, scowl, stare, glower, lower or Brit also lour She shrank from his fierce glare 3 garishness, gaudiness, floridity or floridness, flashiness, tawdriness, showiness, ostentation, meretriciousness His writing is filled with the pomp and glare of rhetoric
v. 4 frown, give a dirty or nasty or black look, scowl, stare, glower, lower or Brit also lour, look daggers (at) She simply glared at him and he withered