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blistering
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun blistering has 1 sense
- blistering(n = noun.process) vesication, vesiculation - the formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin; Array is a kind of biological process, organic process
Adjective blistering has 3 senses
- blistering(s = adj.all) acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic - harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation"; "a vitriolic critique"
- blistering(s = adj.all) blistery - hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters; "blistering sun"
- blistering(s = adj.all) hot, red-hot - very fast; capable of quick response and great speed; "a hot sports car"; "a blistering pace"; "got off to a hot start"; "in hot pursuit"; "a red-hot line drive"
CIDE DICTIONARY
blistering, adj.
- harshly or corrosively critical in tone; -- of comments about people or their actions. [WordNet 1.5]
- intensely hot. [WordNet 1.5]
- very fast; as, a blistering pace. [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
blistering
afflict, annoy, ardent, baking, beaten, blasted, blazing, blebby, bleeding, blessed, blistered, blistery, blooming, boiling, bother, branding, broiling, bubbling, bubbly, burbling, burbly, burning, burning hot, calcination, canicular, carbonated, carbonization, cauterization, cautery, chiffon, cineration, combustion, concremation, cracking, cremation, cupellation, cursed, cussed, deflagration, destructive distillation, discomfort, distillation, distilling, ebullient, effervescent, execrable, fatigue, feverish, fiery, fizzy, flaming, flushed, grilling, heated, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, incineration, infernal, irk, irritate, jade, like a furnace, like an oven, overheated, overwarm, oxidation, oxidization, parching, piping hot, puffed, pyrolysis, red-hot, refining, roasting, scalding, scorching, scorification, searing, seething, self-immolation, simmering, singeing, sizzling, sizzling hot, smelting, smoking hot, souffle, souffleed, sparkling, spumescent, sudorific, suttee, sweating, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry, the stake, thermogenesis, toasting, torrid, vesicant, vesicated, vesication, vesicatory, vesicular, wear, whipped, white-hot
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