Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Intensely hot: a blistering sun.
- adj. Harsh; severe: blistering criticism.
- adj. Very rapid: a blistering pace.
- adj. Producing a blister or blisters: a blistering agent.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Causing or tending to cause blisters.
- n. Same as blister, 5.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of blister.
- adj. Causing blisters
- adj. Very hot
- adj. Harsh or corrosive
- adj. Very aggressive
- adj. Very fast
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. harshly or corrosively critical in tone; -- of comments about people or their actions.
- adj. intensely hot.
- adj. very fast.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. harsh or corrosive in tone
- adj. very fast; capable of quick response and great speed
- n. the formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin
- adj. hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters
Examples
“Hell, I'm more than willing to pass the horn around so you can all have a blow, and no, that's not oral herpes I've got, but simply blistering from the scorching sun as I made my way home from the desert city of Shem.”
“If one of the objectives of this series is to convince me to go out and buy the novel, or any novel by Phillip K. Dick, then the folks at Boom! can give themselves a skin blistering pat on the back.”
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“However, potential complications include: bleeding infection skin blistering, scarring or ulceration nerve damage injury to surrounding structures (skin, nerves or organs) allergic reaction to X-ray dye or sclerosant blood in the urine”
“No one answers, she said, standing in blistering heat outside a check-cashing store that had just run out of its main commodity.”
“In Chicago, Murphy calls blistering press conferences to parcel out the blame.”
“He lays great stress on boiled oil holding water in suspense to cause blistering, which is merely a conjecture.”
“But Gibbs denied it, and said the blistering was the effect of frost, as the negro was much exposed to before being taken up.”
“But Gibbs denied it, and said the blistering was the effect of frost, as the negro was much exposed to it before being taken up.”
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“Brothers, the band's latest disc, ventures further into the psychedelic frontier than the group has ever gone before, with a soulful yet head-swimming set that recalls the blistering, bluesy trippiness of everyone from Cream to”
“Democrat described as blistering, expressed opposition Thursday to the Obama administration's new rules on”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘blistering’.
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Put your best pace forward
Locomotion, movement, mobility et al
jackrabbit start, frenetic pace, glacial pace, canter, traipse, mosey along, shuffle, trot, roaring start, slug-like, ploddingly, flit and 26 more...
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SoSheShall's list
slurp, coeur, slurple, glop, perp, fluarxx, ropechno, herrherr, burrduhherrherr, sloppy, cheezie balls, eccentric and 634 more...
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Miss Sunshine
she's such a joy.
bereaved, bitter, cheerless, dejected, depressed, despairing, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, distressed, doleful, downcast and 405 more...
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Words I'd Like to Use Someday
thundersnow, phantasmagoria, mercurial, chimerical, taciturn, paraclete, lapis lazuli, flay, guttersnipe, wonky, misanthrope, kestrel and 583 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, B
bloviate, bejesus, brouhaha, behoove, bodacious, bamboozle, banshee, bub, bolus, blob, bubbly, bleb and 414 more...
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amy's GRE 2012
gimmicks, kowtow, unpretentious, skeptical, cynical, somber, prevaricate, equivocate, requisite, embellish, impregnable, procrastinate and 307 more...
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conceptwriter's Words
sloth, jackass, dickhead, technostalgic, futuristic, enigma, impact, addict, nasty, premium, extraordinaire, yearning and 262 more...
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KaeZoo's Words
flingers, unhinged, driven, flanked, arboreal, venerable, endearing, iconoclastic, fletcher, competent, fireproof, cavernous and 215 more...
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pop ups
erstwhile, allegiance, sacked, reinstate, vengeance, affluent, sedative, maverick, caricatives, abandoned, faux pas, ambience and 245 more...
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extremes
Words that are used as extremes
abject poverty or abject melancholy
roaring drunk
blistering pace
blindingly fast
dead tired
glowing review
vast maj...abject, roaring, blistering, dead, glowing, vast, every, an arm and a leg, pay through the nose, blindingly, patently, consummate
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simple & useful 14
fabrication, parapet, transverse, erecting, dimpled, blistering, epoxy, scrubbable, immersion, puttying, sandpapered, stippled and 65 more...
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unsorted
altercation, accommodate, allocate, arbitrary, blistering, comprehensive, consistent, contradict, differentiate, pledge, dismiss, explicit and 26 more...
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Construction For Poets
barge board, joists, girders, shiplapped, tongued and grooved, storm sash, balloon framing, rafter, puttying, screed, studding, board foot and 36 more...
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weathering heights
weather words
ground clouds, haze, mizzle, murk, brume, film, gloom, sunshine, frosty, storm, cirrostratus, cumulonimbus and 57 more...
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"Hot" Adjectives
hot, balmy, moist, summery, tropical, equatorial, lush, steamy, sticky, stifling, sultry, sweaty and 23 more...
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Favorites 2
trash, booze, bazooka, conjure, bland, verge, blistering, resurrect, verses, zorba, ephemeral, grandeur and 6 more...
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