Dazzled vs Amazed - What's the difference?
dazzled | amazed |
(dazzle)
To confuse the sight of by means of excessive brightness.
* Milton
* Sir H. Taylor
(figuratively) To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance.
To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.
* Francis Bacon
* Dryden
A light of dazzling brilliancy.
(uncommon) A herd of zebra.
* 1958', Laurens Van der Post, ''The lost world of the Kalahari: with the great and the little memory'' (' 1998 David Coulson edition):
* 2009 , Darren Paul Shearer, In You God Trusts , page 176:
* 2010 , Douglas Rogers, The Last Resort: A Memoir of Mischief and Mayhem on a Family Farm in Africa , page 22:
Astonished; confounded with fear, surprise, or wonder; greatly surprised.
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*:And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs, ascending the stairs two at a time, peeped perfunctorily into the nursery as she passed the hallway—and halted amazed .
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As verbs the difference between dazzled and amazed
is that dazzled is (dazzle) while amazed is (amaze).As an adjective amazed is
astonished; confounded with fear, surprise, or wonder; greatly surprised.dazzled
English
Verb
(head)dazzle
English
Verb
(dazzl)- Dazzled by the headlights of the lorry, the deer stopped in the middle of the street.
- Those heavenly shapes / Will dazzle now the earthly, with their blaze / Insufferably bright.
- An unreflected light did never yet / Dazzle the vision feminine.
- The delegates were dazzled by the originality of his arguments.
- An overlight maketh the eyes dazzle .
- I dare not trust these eyes; / They dance in mists, and dazzle with surprise.
Derived terms
* dazzler * dazzlementNoun
(s)- We were trying to stalk a dazzle of zebra which flashed in and out of a long strip of green and yellow fever trees, with an ostrich, its feathers flared like a ballet skirt around its dancing legs, on their flank, when suddenly
- Zebras move in herds which are known as "dazzles." When a lion approaches a dazzle of zebras during its hunt,
- I reached the lodge as a dazzle of zebras trotted across the dirt road into thorny scrub by the game fence, and a lone kudu gazed up at me from the short grass near the swimming pool.
Synonyms
* herdamazed
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.}}