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Dazzling vs Confounding - What's the difference?

dazzling | confounding | Related terms |

Dazzling is a related term of confounding.


As verbs the difference between dazzling and confounding

is that dazzling is while confounding is .

As nouns the difference between dazzling and confounding

is that dazzling is the action of the verb to dazzle ; dazzlement while confounding is the act by which things are confounded, or confused.

As an adjective dazzling

is shining intensely.

dazzling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Shining intensely.
  • * , Episode 12, The Cyclops
    • The deafening claps of thunder and the dazzling flashes of lightning which lit up the ghastly scene testified that the artillery of heaven had lent its supernatural pomp to the already gruesome spectacle.
  • Splendid; brilliant
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=December 18 , author=Ben Dirs , title=Carl Froch outclassed by dazzling Andre Ward , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Oakland native Ward is now unbeaten in 25 fights and can now claim to be one of the top few pound-for-pound fighters on the planet after a technically dazzling display.}}
  • Superlative; astounding

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb to dazzle ; dazzlement
  • * 1837 , Minutes of the General Association of Massachusetts
    • Our organization secures the greatest amount of good unbalanced by accomplished evil of any known system, a good which resembles the sober hue of massive gold, rather than the splendid dazzlings of a baser metal.

    confounding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which things are confounded, or confused.