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Blinding vs Harsh - What's the difference?

blinding | harsh |

As verbs the difference between blinding and harsh

is that blinding is while harsh is (slang) to negatively criticize.

As adjectives the difference between blinding and harsh

is that blinding is very bright (as if to cause blindness) while harsh is unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses.

As an adverb blinding

is (neologism) to an extreme degree; blindingly.

As a noun blinding

is the act of causing blindness.

blinding

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Verb

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    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Very bright (as if to cause blindness).
  • Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding.
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  • *:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
  • Brilliant; marvellous.
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    • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (neologism) To an extreme degree; blindingly.
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  • * {{quote-news, title=US Note Yields Near 4-Month High Before Durable Goods Report
    • , work=Bloomberg, date=May 24, year=2007, passage=Roger Yates, chief executive officer of Henderson Group Plc in London, which oversees about $125 billion said Greenspan's remarks were "blinding obvious".}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of causing blindness.
  • A thin coat of sand or gravel used to fill holes in a new road surface.
  • A thin sprinkling of sand or chippings laid on a newly tarred surface.

    • harsh

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    Adjective

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  • Unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses.
  • Severe or cruel.
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    • , year=2011 , date=November 5 , author=Phil Dawkes , title=QPR 2 - 3 Man City , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Great news for City, but the result was harsh on Neil Warnock's side who gave as good as they got even though the odds were stacked against them.}}

    Antonyms

    * genteel

    Verb

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  • (slang) To negatively criticize.
    • Quit harshing me already, I said that I was sorry!
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  • (slang) to put a damper on (a mood).
    • Dude, you're harshing my buzz.
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    • Synonyms

    * rough

    Derived terms

    * harshly * harshness