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Definitions: Dazzling |
DazzlingAdjective1. 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. 2. Shining intensely; "the blazing sun"; "blinding headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of sunlight"; "the glaring sun". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dazzling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Synonyms: DazzlingSynonyms: blazing (adj), blinding (adj), fulgent (adj), fulgurant (adj), fulgurous (adj), glaring (adj), glary (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Beauty | Brilliant, shining; beamy, beaming; sparkling, splendid, resplendent, dazzling, glowing; glossy, sleek. |
Heat | Fiery; incandescent, incalescent; candent, ebullient, glowing, smoking; live; on fire; dazzling. Verb: in flames, blazing, in a blaze; alight, afire, ablaze; unquenched, unextinguished; smoldering; in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat; sudorific; sweltering, sweltered; blood hot, blood warm; warm as a toast, warm as wool. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dazzling |
| English words defined with "dazzling": Dazzlement ♦ finished, Fulgor, fulgurant, fulgurous ♦ Glaringness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dazzling": Bird of Este ♦ Khorassan ♦ Rogero, ♦ Veiled Prophet of Khorassan. (references) |
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Screenplays | I've seen 'em come, and I've seen 'em go, but you're the best, my boy. Dazzling! Light years ahead of the competition! (The Last Starfighter; writing credit: Jonathan R. Betuel) Congratulations on a dazzling display of logic. (Star Trek; writing credit: Walter Black; William Hamilton) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Dazzling Co-Ed (1927) Dazzling Bloomers (2001) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | These two dazzling clusters of stars, called NGC 1850, are found in one of our neighboring ...Credit: NASA. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | So dazzling are they. |
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Business | This dazzling growth in air travel drives regional demand for everything related to aerospace, including aircraft and helicopter components, maintenance, repair and overhaul services, etc. Since the demand for aircraft repairing equipment is a derived demand, the growth in international passenger traffic is a leading indicator of the demand for aircraft repair equipment. (references) | |
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| "Dazzling" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 46.13% of the time. "Dazzling" is used about 297 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 46.13% | 137 | 27,138 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 45.79% | 136 | 27,260 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.06% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.02% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 297 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "dazzling": be dazzling. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "dazzling": all-dazzling, sun-dazzling, world-dazzling. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dazzling | 22 |
dazzling ray | 7 |
dazzling doll | 6 |
dazzling star | 5 |
dazzling debbies doll | 3 |
dazzling white | 2 |
dazzling killmen | 2 |
dazzling diamond | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "dazzling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | verbues (blinding, glaring, meteoric), verbim (blackout, blinding, dazzle), i verbuar. (various references) | |
Arabic | متلألئ (gleamy, glistening, glittering, radiant, shimmering, shining, sparkling), لامع (blazing, bright, brilliant, burnished, flamboyant, flashing, glazed, gleaming, glimmering, glistering, glittering, glossed, glossy, golden, high, lambent, lucid, lustrous, outstanding, polished, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, sheen, shining, shiny, showy, sleek, slick, sparkle, sparkling, star, staring), ساطع (bright, effulgent, glaring, incandescent, shining, splendid, spotless), الجهر من شدة الضوء, رائع (admirable, bonny, brag, brave, conspicuous, ducks, ducky, effective, elegant, emphatic, entrancing, exceptional, exquisite, extraordinary, fabulous, felicitous, fine, glorious, gorgeous, grand, heavenly, in apple-pie order, irresistible, lovely, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, mighty, miraculous, noteworthy, out of this world, outstanding, palmy, picturesque, portentous, precious, prestigious, rattling, recherche, remarkable, ripening, ripping, sensational, showy, sightly, signal, singular, smash, smashing, solid, some, spanking, sparkling, splendid, stunning, stupendous, super, superb, swell, terrific, topping, tremendous, uncommon, wonder, wonderful, wondrous), باهر (admirable, flaring, glamorous, glamourous, mesmeric, out of this world, smashing, splendid). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ослепителен (blinding, flaring, glaring, intense, vivid), заслепяващ (blinding). (various references) | |
Chinese | ' (glimmer, glimmering, perplexed, Polyeonatum officinale), 目炫 (Dazzle, Dazzled). (various references) | |
Czech | oslnivý (brilliant, fascinating, glaring, radiant), oslepující (blinding, garish, glaring). (various references) | |
Danish | blinding (blinding, glare), blaending (dazzle), blænding (blinding, glare). (various references) | |
Dutch | verblinding (dazzle). (various references) | |
Finnish | häikäisevä (brilliant). (various references) | |
French | éclatant, éblouissement (dazzle, dazzlement), éblouissant. (various references) | |
German | blendung (blinding, dazzle, glare), blendend (bedazzling, blinding, blindingly, brilliant, dazzlingly, sparkling, specious, splendid). (various references) | |
Greek | εκθαμβωτικόσ, εκθαμβωτικό φώς (dazzle), θάμπωμα όρασης (dazzle). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מס ור (blinding, glaring, staring), "סת ורות (blindness), ס וור (blinding, striking blind). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kápráztató (blinding, gorgeous). (various references) | |
Indonesian | cemerlang (bright, brilliant, gleaming, sparkle). (various references) | |
Italian | smagliante, accecante, abbagliante (garish, glaring), abbagliamento (blooming, dazzle). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 陸離 , 艶麗 , 眩惑 (blinding), 眩しい (radiant), 煌びやか (gaudy, gay, gorgeous), 綺羅びやか (gaudy, gay, gorgeous), 絢爛たる (flowery, gorgeous), 絢爛 (brilliant, gaudy, gorgeous), 目眩く (blinding), 晃晃たる (brilliant), 光彩陸離たる (brilliant). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きらびやか (gaudy, gay, gorgeous), まぶしい (radiant), "うさいりくりたる (brilliant), "う"うたる (brilliant, light), りくり, めくるめく (blinding), '"わく (bewitching, blinding, fascination, glamor), け"ら"たる (flowery, gorgeous), け"ら" (brilliant, gaudy, gorgeous), え"れい. (various references) | |
Korean | 눈을 부시게 함. (various references) | |
Manx | londyrnee (flare, flaring, flashing, glare, glare as light), dallagh (garish, glaring). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | azzlingday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | encandeamento (dazzle). (various references) | |
Romanian | orbitor (dazzlingly, flash, glaring), care îţi ia vederea. (various references) | |
Russian | ослепительный (candescent, flaring, flashy, garish, glaring). (various references) | |
Scottish | gleò (dazzling haziness about the eyes). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zaslepljujući (blinding, flaming). (various references) | |
Spanish | deslumbrante (blinding, glaringly). (various references) | |
Turkish | parlak (aglow, ardent, bright, brightly, brilliant, clear, effulgent, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flashily, flashy, fulgent, fulgurant, glace, glittering, glossy, glowing, gorgeous, illuminant, incandescent, irradiant, jazzy, lambent, live, lively, loud, lucent, luminescent, luminous, lustrous, meteoric, oriental, polished, pyrotechnic, pyrotechnical, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, sheeny, shining, shiny, sleek, sparkling, splendent, splendid, star, staring, starry, sunny, vivid), göz kamaştırıcı (blinding, doggy, flaring, glamorous, glaring, gorgeous, harsh, incandescent, resplendent), büyüleyici (bewitching, captivating, challenging, charming, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, ravishing, witching, wizard), şaşırtıcı (amazing, astonishing, astounding, baffling, bewildering, colossal, confused, confusing, incredible, intriguing, mind-bending, perplexing, puzzling, rum, spectacular, staggering, startling, striking, surprising, twisty). (various references) | |
Turkmen | ilginз (bold, salient). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự l m hoa mắt l m sững sờ, sáng chói (bright, brilliant, glaring, glaringly, glary, irradiant, lucent, luminous, radiant), l m kinh ngạc (amazing, astounding, surprising), l m chói mắt, chói lọi (aureate, flamboyant, luminous, lustrous, refulgent, resplendent, shining, vivid). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dazzling": dazzlingly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "dazzling": bedazzling, outdazzling. (additional references) | |
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"Dazzling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dazzing, dizzling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dazzling" (pronounced da"zuling or da"zling) |
| 5 | -z u l i ng | drizzling, embezzling, fizzling, guzzling, puzzling, sizzling. |
| 4 | -u l i ng | ambling, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, barreling, battling, belittling, bicycling, boggling, bottling, bristling, bubbling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, bustling, cackling, canceling, cancelling, channeling, chortling, circling, coddling, commingling, counseling, cradling, crippling, crumbling, cycling, dabbling, dangling, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, doubling, dribbling, dwindling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, entitling, equaling, fondling, fumbling, funneling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, groveling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, haggling, hassling, hobbling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hustling, idling, imperiling, initialing, intermingling, jiggling, jostling, juggling, labeling, leveling, mangling, marshaling, meddling, middling, mingling, mislabeling, modeling, mottling, muddling, mumbling, muscling, nibbling, paddling, paneling, parceling, pedaling, peddling, piddling, pummeling, quadrupling, quarreling, quibbling, raveling, recycling, redoubling, refueling, remodeling, resembling, reshuffling, reveling, rippling, rivaling, ruffling, rumbling, saddling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, settling, shriveling, shuttling, signaling, signalling, singling, spiraling, spiralling, squabbling, stapling, stenciling, strangling, struggling, stumbling, swiveling, tabling, throttling, tingling, tinkling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, traveling, travelling, trembling, tripling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twinkling, unraveling, unsettling, waggling, warbling, wiggling, wobbling, wrangling, wrinkling, yodeling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | ailing, angling, annealing, appalling, appealing, assailing, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, beguiling, Belling, billing, blackmailing, boiling, Bolling, bowling, brawling, broiling, buckling, burgling, burling, cajoling, calling, Carling, ceiling, chilling, chronicling, chuckling, compelling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, crawling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, darling, dawdling, dealing, decoupling, derailing, detailing, dispelling, dissembling, distilling, doling, drilling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, earthling, emailing, enrolling, entailing, entangling, excelling, expelling, extolling, failing, falling, feeling, felling, fiddling, filing, filling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, galling, grappling, Grayling, grilling, groundling, growling, hailing, handling, hauling, healing, heckling, helling, hilling, holing, howling, hurling, hurtling, inhaling, inkling, installing, instilling, jailing, Keeling, killing, kindling, kneeling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, Marling, Melling, milling, mishandling, misspelling, mothballing, mulling, nailing, needling, nestling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, peeling, pickling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, quelling, quilling, Quisling, railing, rambling, rankling, rappelling, rattling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, reeling, regaling, rekindling, repealing, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, retailing, retelling, retooling, revealing, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruling, rustling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, selling, shelling, shilling, shoveling, shuffling, sibling, skilling, smelling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spilling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squealing, stalling, starling, startling, stealing, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strickling, stripling, strolling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swelling, swilling, swindling, swirling, tackling, tailing, tangling, telling, thrilling, Tilling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, trailing, trampling, trickling, trifling, trilling, trolling, twiddling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waffling, wailing, walling, weakling, welling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiling, willing, wrestling, yearling, yelling. |
| 4 | -z l i ng | Quisling, Riesling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | ailing, ambling, angling, annealing, appalling, appealing, assailing, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, barreling, battling, beguiling, belittling, Belling, bicycling, billing, blackmailing, boggling, boiling, Bolling, bottling, bowling, brawling, bristling, broiling, bubbling, buckling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, burgling, burling, bustling, cackling, cajoling, calling, canceling, cancelling, Carling, ceiling, channeling, chilling, chortling, chronicling, chuckling, circling, coddling, commingling, compelling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, counseling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, cradling, crawling, crippling, crumbling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, cycling, dabbling, dangling, darling, dawdling, dealing, decoupling, derailing, detailing, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, dispelling, dissembling, distilling, doling, doubling, dribbling, drilling, drizzling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, dwindling, earthling, emailing, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, enrolling, entailing, entangling, entitling, equaling, excelling, expelling, extolling, failing, falling, feeling, felling, fiddling, filing, filling, fizzling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fondling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, fumbling, funneling, galling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, grappling, Grayling, grilling, groundling, groveling, growling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hailing, handling, hassling, hauling, healing, heckling, helling, hilling, hobbling, holing, howling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hurling, hurtling, hustling, idling, imperiling, inhaling, initialing, inkling, installing, instilling, intermingling, jailing, jiggling, jostling, juggling, Keeling, killing, kindling, kneeling, labeling, leveling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, mangling, Marling, marshaling, meddling, Melling, middling, milling, mingling, mishandling, mislabeling, misspelling, modeling, mothballing, mottling, muddling, mulling, mumbling, muscling, nailing, needling, nestling, nibbling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, paddling, paneling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, parceling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, pedaling, peddling, peeling, pickling, piddling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quelling, quibbling, quilling, railing, rambling, rankling, rappelling, rattling, raveling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, recycling, redoubling, reeling, refueling, regaling, rekindling, remodeling, repealing, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, resembling, reshuffling, retailing, retelling, retooling, revealing, reveling, ridiculing, rifling, rilling, rippling, rivaling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruffling, ruling, rumbling, rustling, saddling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, selling, settling, shelling, shilling, shoveling, shriveling, shuffling, shuttling, sibling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, skilling, smelling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spilling, spiraling, spiralling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squabbling, squealing, stalling, stapling, starling, startling, stealing, stenciling, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strangling, strickling, stripling, strolling, struggling, stumbling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swelling, swilling, swindling, swirling, swiveling, tabling, tackling, tailing, tangling, telling, thrilling, throttling, Tilling, tingling, tinkling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, trailing, trampling, traveling, travelling, trembling, trickling, trifling, trilling, tripling, trolling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twiddling, twinkling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unraveling, unsettling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waffling, waggling, wailing, walling, warbling, weakling, welling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiggling, wiling, willing, wobbling, wrangling, wrestling, wrinkling, yearling, yelling, yodeling. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-g-i-l-n-z-z" | |
-2 letters: dazing, lading, lazing, ligand. | |
-3 letters: algid, algin, align, gland, liang, ligan, linga, nidal. | |
-4 letters: agin, anil, dang, dial, ding, gadi, gain, gild, glad, glia, laid, lain, land, lang, ling, nail, nazi, zing. | |
-5 letters: adz, aid, ail, ain, and, ani, dag, dal, dig, din, gad, gal, gan, gid, gin, lad, lag, lid, lin, nag, nil, zag, zig, zin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-g-i-l-n-z-z" | |
+2 letters: bedazzling, dazzlingly. | |
+3 letters: outdazzling. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 61 7A 7A 6C 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .- --.. --.. .-.. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100001 01111010 01111010 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D a z z l i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0061 007A 007A 006C 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3867929278758073 |
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