Blinking

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪŋkɪŋ

Adjective

Blinking (not comparable)

1. That or who blinks or blink.

   a blinking light

2. (British euphemistic slang) Bloody (in the coarse slang sense)

Synonyms

• (that or who blink or blinks): winking
• (British slang): blasted, blimming, blooming

Verb

blinking

1. Present participle of blink.

Thesaurus

absolute, aflicker, asquint, astigmatic, bickering, blasted, bleeding, blink, blink-eyed, blinkard, blinky, blooming, complete, coruscant, coruscating, coruscation, cursed, cussed, damnable, dancing, downright, execrable, farsighted, firefly, flashing, flickering, flickery, flicky, fluttering, fluttering the eyelids, fluttery, glimmer, glimmering, glimmerous, glimmery, glisten, glistening, glister, glistering, glitter, glittering, glittery, glowworm, infernal, lambent, longsighted, mope-eyed, myopic, nearsighted, nictitation, out-and-out, outright, perfect, playing, poor-sighted, presbyopic, quivering, quivery, scintilla, scintillant, scintillating, scintillation, scintillescent, shimmer, shimmering, shimmery, shortsighted, spangle, spangly, spark, sparkle, sparkling, squinch-eyed, squint-eyed, squinting, squinty, strabismal, strabismic, stroboscopic, stroboscopic light, tinsel, tinselly, twinkle, twinkling, twinkly, unmitigated, wavering, wavery, winker, winking