dazzlingly


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daz·zle

 (dăz′əl)
v. daz·zled, daz·zling, daz·zles
v.tr.
1. To dim the vision of, especially to blind with intense light.
2. To amaze, overwhelm, or bewilder with spectacular display: a figure skater who dazzled the audience with virtuosic jumps.
v.intr.
1. To become blinded.
2. To inspire admiration or wonder.
n.
The act of dazzling or the state of being dazzled.

[ Frequentative of daze.]

daz′zler n.
daz′zling·ly adv.
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Adv.1.dazzlingly - in a manner or to a degree that dazzles the beholder
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Translations

dazzlingly

[ˈdæzlɪŋlɪ] ADV [shine] → deslumbradoramente
dazzlingly beautifulde una belleza deslumbrante
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

dazzlingly

[ˈdæzlɪŋli] adv
dazzlingly beautiful → d'une beauté éblouissante
dazzlingly bright → d'une clarté éblouissante
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

dazzlingly

adv (lit, fig)blendend; dazzlingly beautifulstrahlend schön
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

dazzlingly

[ˈdæzlɪŋlɪ] adv (bright) → in modo abbagliante; (beautiful) → in modo smagliante
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
References in classic literature ?
Bright rays beam dazzlingly from him, and his bright locks streaming form the temples of his head gracefully enclose his far-seen face: a rich, fine-spun garment glows upon his body and flutters in the wind: and stallions carry him.
Yet is it bright with many a gem; i, the wearer, see not its far flashings; but darkly feel that i wear that, that dazzlingly confounds.
When the day grew quite strong and commonplace these dried off her; moreover, Tess then lost her strange and ethereal beauty; her teeth, lips, and eyes scintillated in the sunbeams and she was again the dazzlingly fair dairymaid only, who had to hold her own against the other women of the world.
Never had his gold been so golden, his azure so dazzlingly clear and deep as on this particular May morning; while his fancy simply ran riot in the marginal decorations of woodland and spinney, quaint embroidered flowers and copses full of exquisitely painted and wonderfully trained birds of song.
In another second it had lifted a bar of white aluminium into sight, untarnished as yet, and shining dazzlingly, and deposited it in a growing stack of bars that stood at the side of the pit.
The metal trappings of the harnesses shone dazzlingly, and the wheels were revolving disks that threw off rays of light.
Even in London the sun, on that summer afternoon, was dazzlingly bright.
For a moment she remained dazzlingly white, then faded away slowly to nothing in a squall, only to reappear again, nearly black, resembling a post stuck upright against the slaty background of solid cloud.
What dazzlingly lovely heroines we had -- and how we dressed them!
Her neck and shoulders alone remained, as ever, dazzlingly beautiful.
He kept closing his eyes and then again looking at the fire, which seemed to him dazzlingly red, and at the feeble, round-shouldered figure of Tushin who was sitting cross-legged like a Turk beside him.
We settled all accounts, and after shaking hands in turn and in profound silence, they descended one after another into their boat, and were paddled to the shore, sitting close together, clad in vivid colours, with hanging heads: the gold embroideries of their jackets flashed dazzlingly as they went away gliding on the smooth water, and not one of them looked back once.