DAZZLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dazzling mean? 

• DAZZLING (adjective)
  The adjective DAZZLING has 2 senses:

1. amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning

2. shining intensely

  Familiarity information: DAZZLING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAZZLING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning

Synonyms:

dazzling; eye-popping; fulgurant; fulgurous

Context example:

adventures related...in a style both vivid and fulgurous

Similar:

impressive (making a strong or vivid impression)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Shining intensely

Synonyms:

blazing; blinding; dazzling; fulgent; glaring; glary

Context example:

the glaring sun

Similar:

bright (emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts)

 Context examples 

There is a more dazzling happenstance here.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

All my wrongs and humiliations flashed upon me with a dazzling brightness, all that I had suffered and others had suffered at his hands, all the enormity of the man’s very existence.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The chargers spun round each other, biting and striking, while the two blades wheeled and whizzed and circled in gleams of dazzling light.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This star system could be the archetype to explain a dazzling variety of glowing shapes uncovered by Hubble that are seen around dying stars, called planetary nebulae, researchers say.

(Hubble Detects Giant 'Cannonballs' Shooting from Star, NASA)

"It looks like a fairy world," said Meg, smiling to herself, as she stood behind the curtain, watching the dazzling sight.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

His mirror of vision was silver-clear, a flashing, dazzling palimpsest of imagery.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“Heaven aid me now!” said she; and she took the casket that the sun had given her, and found that within it lay a dress as dazzling as the sun itself.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

As I stood at the door, on a sudden I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak which stood about twenty yards from our house; and so soon as the dazzling light vanished, the oak had disappeared, and nothing remained but a blasted stump.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Traddles, whom I have taken up by appointment at the turnpike, presents a dazzling combination of cream colour and light blue; and both he and Mr. Dick have a general effect about them of being all gloves.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This is 10 to 30 times higher than the largest auroral potentials observed at Earth, where only several thousands of volts are typically needed to generate the most intense auroras — known as discrete auroras — the dazzling, twisting, snake-like northern and southern lights seen in places like Alaska and Canada, northern Europe, and many other northern and southern polar regions.

(Jupiter's Auroras Present a Powerful Mystery, NASA)