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Amazingly impressive (like car headlights?)
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dazzling
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 shine intensely. 2 splendid; brilliant n. The action of the verb ''to dazzle''; dazzlement v (present participle of dazzle English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dazzle \Daz"zle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dazzled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dazzling .] [Freq. of daze.] 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. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a dazzling smile (= a big smile which shows someone’s white teeth ) ▪ When he came back she gave him her most dazzling smile. a fine/magnificent/spectacular/dazzling display (= a very good one ) ▪ The museum has ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. 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 ...
Usage examples of dazzling.
I saw, or fancied I saw, coming down the chimney, a dazzling woman, with immense hoops, splendidly attired, and wearing on her head a crown set with precious stones, which seemed to me sparkling with fire.
I soon saw a Greek slave, a girl of dazzling beauty, for whom I felt the deepest interest.
Her cold and distant manner repelled me, but I loved her, and I had never seen her so beautiful, a slight fever animating her complexion which was then truly dazzling in its beauty.
No feature was distinguishable, and her ugliness was made more conspicuous and dreadful by two fine eyes full of fire, and by a lipless mouth which she kept parted, as if to disclose two rows of teeth of dazzling whiteness.
Her satin skin by its dazzling whiteness displayed to greater advantage her magnificent black hair.
Her skin was as white as snow, and her ebony tresses covered the whole of her body, save in a few places where the dazzling whiteness of her skin shone through.
Above the eastern horizon, above the dark mountains, a point of light broke out of the blackness and quickly blossomed into dazzling white sphere.
No longer would men such as Danlo be able to look at the stars and see the universe just as it is, for all space would be light, and all time would be light, always and forever, nothing but light and ever more dazzling light.
And the image of himself as pilot who had penetrated the living substance of a goddess might be, at this moment, one of Her deepest thoughts, and suddenly this looking inside himself to apprehend the reality of who lay inside whom was like holding a mirror before a silver mirror and looking down into an infinite succession of smaller mirrors as they almost vanished into a dazzling, singular point.
She was still beautiful, of course, but her imperious nose suddenly seemed too perfectly sculpted, her eyes a shade too dark, her dazzling smile too full of passion and pride.
Beholding the dazzling beauty of this rare thing, for a moment Danlo felt himself falling as if he had stepped off the world out into the whirlpool of lights that spin through the universe.
He fell on and on past countless stars, and after a time, as all pilots do in the dazzling black neverness of the manifold, he felt very much alone.
He also wore a pair of polarized goggles against the dazzling mountain light.
At the heart of the manifold was a singularity dazzling in its darkness when Danlo closed his eyes he could almost feel some force pulling at him with all the terrible gravity of a black hole.
But there were no lines, no familiar print patterns, only streaks of amethyst and scarlet and a hundred other colours all swirling and dazzling him with their beauty.