Word Study
flaring
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective flaring has 1 sense
- flaring(s = adj.all) aflare - streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air; "ran quickly, her flaring coat behind her"; "flags aflare in the breeze"
CIDE DICTIONARY
flaring, a.
- That flares; flaming or blazing unsteadily; shining out with a dazzling light. [1913 Webster]"His [the sun's] flaring beams." [1913 Webster]
- Opening or speading outwards. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
flaring
ablaze, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, ardent, blatant, blazing, blinding, brazen, brazenfaced, burning, candent, candescent, colorful, comburent, conflagrant, crude, deltoid, extravagant, fan-shape, fan-shaped, fanlike, fanned, fanning, fiery, flabelliform, flagrant, flaming, flared, flashing, flashy, flaunting, flickering, fulgurant, fulgurating, fuming, garish, gaudy, glaring, glowing, gorgeous, guttering, ignescent, ignited, in a blaze, in a glow, in flames, incandescent, inflamed, kindled, live, living, loud, lurid, meretricious, meteoric, obtrusive, on fire, open, outspread, outstretched, overbright, patulous, raw, reeking, scintillant, scintillating, screaming, sensational, shameless, shrieking, smoking, smoldering, sparking, spectacular, splay, splayed, splaying, spraddled, spraddling, sprangled, sprangling, sprawling, sprawly, spread, spreading, stretched-out, tawdry, unextinguished, unfolded, unquenched, vulgar, wide-open, widespreadROGET THESAURUS
flaring
Color
N color, hue, tint, tinge, dye, complexion, shade, tincture, cast, livery, coloration, glow, flush, tone, key, pure color, positive color, primary color, primitive complementary color, three primaries, spectrum, chromatic dispersion, broken color, secondary color, tertiary color, local color, coloring, keeping, tone, value, aerial perspective, chromatics, spectrum analysis, spectroscopy, chromatism, chromatography, chromatology, prism, spectroscope, spectrograph, spectrometer, colorimeter (optical instruments), pigment, coloring matter, paint, dye, wash, distemper, stain, medium, mordant, oil paint, colored, colorific, tingent, tinctorial, chromatic, prismatic, full-colored, high-colored, deep-colored, doubly-dyed, polychromatic, chromatogenous, tingible, bright, vivid, intense, deep, fresh, unfaded, rich, gorgeous, gay, gaudy, florid, gay, garish, rainbow-colored, multihued, showy, flaunting, flashy, raw, crude, glaring, flaring, discordant, inharmonious, mellow, pastel, harmonious, pearly, sweet, delicate, tender, refined.
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