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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning;
- Example: "the skater's dazzling virtuosic leaps"
- Example: "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
- Example: "adventures related...in a style both vivid and fulgurous"- Idwal Jones
[syn: dazzling, eye-popping, fulgurant, fulgurous]

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



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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: 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]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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