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dazzlingly

adv · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adv

Meaning 1

In a dazzling manner.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1963, Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf (1927), translated by Basil Creighton, revised by Walter Sorell, Penguin, 1964, p. 55, And these men, for whom life has no repose, live at times in their rare moments of happiness with such strength and indescribable beauty, the spray of their moment's happiness is flung so high and dazzlingly over the wide sea of suffering, that the light of it, spreading its radiance, touches others too with its enchantment.

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adverb

Meaning 2

in a manner or to a degree that dazzles the beholder

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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History

Etymology

Etymology tree English dazzling Middle English -ly English -ly English dazzlingly From dazzling + -ly.