Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dazzling"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dazzling
adj 1: amazingly impressive brilliance or skill; 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: {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}]
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