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blindingly

blindingly

7 4.2
So bright or strong that it is hard to see
  • adverb
  • /ˈblaɪndɪŋli/
translation icon : deslumbrantemente
  • The sun rose blindingly, psychedelic dots painting the humid air.
  • blindingly obvious

Light next to this blindingly bright star is incredible.

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Examples

  • It will be blindingly obvious to the entire country that the Prime Minister's deal cannot pass this House.

  • I just don't get how anyone could miss that; it was blindingly obvious.

    Blog text (20)

  • Light next to this blindingly bright star is incredible.

    Dr. Becky

  • Not that the room became blindingly bright or anything, but I could see better.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • Now they were five, facing two cats, one of them huge, and both blindingly fast.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • The last room on the ground floor he managed to squeeze into was a blindingly bright back kitchen.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Took almost a half a million guesses to get there, but it was still blindingly fast.

  • High on a hill above the town was a blindingly white Mormon temple.

    Academic text (2001)

  • Even if you had the fastest processors and blindingly fast algorithms, a search would still take days.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • The sun was blindingly bright, making it hard to see without sunglasses.

Synonyms

brightly
vsblindingly
69 1.0

In a way that has a lot of light or that looks happy

is about overpowering intensity that can cause eye discomfort
brilliantly
vsblindingly
9 3.3

Shining with a very bright, strong light

is stronger and can overwhelm vision rather than just shining
blazingly
vsblindingly
1 5.3

In a very bright or very fast way

is about light so strong it actually makes seeing difficult
incandescently
vsblindingly
  • Literature
1 7.7

Very brightly like a light, or showing strong feeling on someone's face

focuses on physical light intensity rather than emotional intensity
luminously
vsblindingly
1 5.3

In a way that gives off bright light

is much stronger and can make seeing difficult rather than gentle light
shiningly
vsblindingly
3.6

In a very bright, clear way

is more extreme, causing discomfort or making vision difficult

Antonyms

softly
95 1.0

In a gentle, light way using little force

faintly
47 2.7

In a way that is only slightly noticeable

How Bright

blindingly
7 4.2
dazzlingly
2 5.3
brightly
69 1.0
softly
95 1.0
faintly
47 2.7

Surface Forms

blindingly positive

Morphology

blindingly = blinding (transparent) = blind + ing + ly

The adverb is formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'blinding' (itself from 'blind' + '-ing'), so the meaning is directly predictable.

Etymology

The word blindingly comes from blind, which means 'without sight', and the ending -ly turns it into a word that describes how something happens. So blindingly means 'in a way that makes it hard to see', like a very bright light that suddenly stops you seeing.