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staring
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective staring has 2 senses
- staring(s = adj.all) agaze - (used of eyes) open and fixed as if in fear or wonder; "staring eyes"
- staring(s = adj.all) arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, stark, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter - without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth"
THESAURUS
staring
agape, aghast, agog, all agog, amazed, arrant, astonished, astounded, at gaze, awed, awestruck, beguiled, bewildered, bewitched, blatant, bold, breathless, captivated, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear-cut, confounded, conspicuous, crystal-clear, defined, definite, distinct, dumbfounded, dumbstruck, enchanted, enraptured, enravished, enthralled, entranced, evident, fascinated, flabbergasted, flagrant, gaping, gauping, gazing, glaring, hanging out, hypnotized, in awe, in awe of, in focus, in relief, in the foreground, lost in wonder, marveling, mesmerized, notable, noticeable, notorious, obtrusive, obvious, open-eyed, openmouthed, ostensible, outstanding, overwhelmed, patent, plain, popeyed, prominent, pronounced, puzzled, rapt in wonder, salient, spellbound, staggered, stark-staring, sticking out, striking, stupefied, surprised, thunderstruck, under a charm, unmistakable, well-defined, well-marked, well-pronounced, well-resolved, wide-eyed, wonder-struck, wonderingROGET THESAURUS
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Visibility
N visibility, perceptibility, conspicuousness, distinctness, conspicuity, conspicuousness, appearance, bassetting, exposure, manifestation, ocular proof, ocular evidence, ocular demonstration, field of view, periscopism, visible, perceptible, perceivable, discernible, apparent, in view, in full view, in sight, exposed to view, en vidence, unclouded, unobscured, in the foreground, obvious, plain, clear, distinct, definite, well defined, well marked, in focus, recognizable, palpable, autoptical, glaring, staring, conspicuous, stereoscopic, in bold, in strong relief, periscopic, panoramic, before one's eyes, under one's eyes, before one, +a vue d'oeil, in one's eye, oculis subjecta fidelibus, visibly, in sight of, before one's eyes, veluti in speculum.
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