Dazzling

3 definitions found

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

  Dazzle \Daz"zle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dazzled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Dazzling}.] [Freq. of daze.]
     1. To overpower with light; to confuse the sight of by
        brilliance of light.
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              Those heavenly shapes
              Will dazzle now the earthly, with their blaze
              Insufferably bright.                  --Milton.
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              An unreflected light did never yet
              Dazzle the vision feminine.           --Sir H.
                                                    Taylor.
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     2. To bewilder or surprise with brilliancy or display of any
        kind. "Dazzled and drove back his enemies." --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dazzling
       adj 1: amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of
              lightning; "the skater's dazzling virtuosic leaps";
              "these great best canvases still look as astonishing
              and as invitingly new as they did...when...his
              fulgurant popularity was in full growth"- Janet
              Flanner; "adventures related...in a style both vivid
              and fulgurous"- Idwal Jones [syn: {eye-popping}, {fulgurant},
               {fulgurous}]
       2: shining intensely; "the blazing sun"; "blinding headlights";
          "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of sunlight"; "the
          glaring sun" [syn: {blazing}, {blinding}, {fulgent}, {glaring},
           {glary}]

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

  45 Moby Thesaurus words for "dazzling":
     beaming, bedazzling, blinding, blooming, bright,
     bright and shining, brilliant, devastating, divine, effulgent,
     flamboyant, flaming, fulgent, fulgid, garish, glamorous, glaring,
     glary, glorious, glowing, gorgeous, heavenly, killing, magnificent,
     mind-boggling, obscuring, overpowering, overwhelming, radiant,
     raving, ravishing, refulgent, resplendent, scintillating, shining,
     sparkling, splendent, splendid, splendiferous, splendorous,
     splendrous, stunning, stupefying, sublime, vivid