Blistering

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Blister \Blis"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Blistered}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Blistering}.]
     To be affected with a blister or blisters; to have a blister
     form on.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           Let my tongue blister.                   --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  blistering \blistering\ adj.
     1. harshly or corrosively critical in tone; -- of comments
        about people or their actions. blistering criticism
  
     Syn: acerb, acerbic, acid, bitter, caustic, scathing,
          venomous, virulent, vitriolic.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. intensely hot. blistering sun
  
     Syn: blistery.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     3. very fast; as, a blistering pace.
  
     Syn: red-hot, scorching.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  blistering
       adj 1: harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing
              otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid
              comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies";
              "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes
              about political assassination, talk-show hosts and
              medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation" [syn: {acerb},
               {acerbic}, {acid}, {acrid}, {bitter}, {caustic}, {sulfurous},
               {sulphurous}, {venomous}, {virulent}, {vitriolic}]
       2: hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters;
          "blistering sun" [syn: {blistery}]
       3: very fast; "a blistering pace"; "got off to a hot start";
          "in hot pursuit"; "a red-hot line drive" [syn: {hot}, {red-hot}]
       4: marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing remarks
          about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative railing"
          [syn: {scathing}, {scalding}, {vituperative}]
       n : the formation of vesicles [syn: {vesiculation}, {vesication}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  109 Moby Thesaurus words for "blistering":
     afflict, annoy, ardent, baking, beaten, blasted, blazing, blebby,
     bleeding, blessed, blistered, blistery, blooming, boiling, bother,
     branding, broiling, bubbling, bubbly, burbling, burbly, burning,
     burning hot, calcination, canicular, carbonated, carbonization,
     cauterization, cautery, chiffon, cineration, combustion,
     concremation, cracking, cremation, cupellation, cursed, cussed,
     deflagration, destructive distillation, discomfort, distillation,
     distilling, ebullient, effervescent, execrable, fatigue, feverish,
     fiery, fizzy, flaming, flushed, grilling, heated, hot, hot as fire,
     hot as hell, incineration, infernal, irk, irritate, jade,
     like a furnace, like an oven, overheated, overwarm, oxidation,
     oxidization, parching, piping hot, puffed, pyrolysis, red-hot,
     refining, roasting, scalding, scorching, scorification, searing,
     seething, self-immolation, simmering, singeing, sizzling,
     sizzling hot, smelting, smoking hot, souffle, souffleed, sparkling,
     spumescent, sudorific, suttee, sweating, sweaty, sweltering,
     sweltry, the stake, thermogenesis, toasting, torrid, vesicant,
     vesicated, vesication, vesicatory, vesicular, wear, whipped,
     white-hot