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Dazzling definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DAZ'ZLING, ppr. Rendering unsteady or wavering as the sight; overpowering by a strong light; striking with splendor.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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: dazzling, eye-popping, fulgurant, fulgurous]
2: shining intensely; "the blazing sun"; "blinding headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of sunlight"; "the glaring sun" [syn: blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. Those heavenly shapes Will dazzle now the earthly, with their blaze Insufferably bright. --Milton. An unreflected light did never yet Dazzle the vision feminine. --Sir H. Taylor. 2. To bewilder or surprise with brilliancy or display of any kind. ``Dazzled and drove back his enemies.'' --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Something that is dazzling is very impressive or beautiful. He gave Alberg a dazzling smile. = stunning ADJ • dazzlingly The view was dazzlingly beautiful. ADV 2. A dazzling light is very bright and makes you unable to see properly for a short time. He shielded his eyes against the dazzling declining sun. ADJ • dazzlingly The loading bay seemed dazzlingly bright. ADV: ADV adj

Moby Thesaurus

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