dazzling

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}]
    

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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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