glancing

Making superficial, obtuse contact with something.

Adjective

  1. Making superficial, obtuse contact with something.
    • His fist caught a glancing blow to my jaw.
    • She looked with a grudging eye on this waste of life and beauty—there was none for him; and the sight of the coffin, with its deep black pall borne slowly along the glancing path, was a contrast of unutterable misery....

Forms

more glancing most glancing

Noun

  1. A sideways look; a glance.
    • No doubt, sometimes there are comprehensive glancings at, and interminglings of different future eras of prophecy. - 1856, David Brown, Christ's second coming: will it be pre-millennial?:

Forms

glancings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of glance