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Resplendent vs Dazzling - What's the difference?

resplendent | dazzling |

As adjectives the difference between resplendent and dazzling

is that resplendent is shiny and colourful, and thus pleasing to the eye while dazzling is shining intensely.

As a verb dazzling is

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As a noun dazzling is

the action of the verb to dazzle ; dazzlement.

resplendent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Shiny and colourful, and thus pleasing to the eye.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
    • , chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.}}
  • (label) Exhibiting the property of resplendency in Peano arithmetic.

    • Related terms

    * resplend * splendid * splendor

    See also

    * resplendid (misspelling) ----

    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.