The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - glare 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.