Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Burning strongly and brightly: Refers to something that is on fire with intense flames and light.
   • Extremely bright or intense: Describes something that shines with a powerful, often dazzling, light.
   • Extremely obvious or conspicuous: Used to describe something that is completely evident and impossible to ignore.

2. Noun:

   • A strong, bright flame: A powerful and vividly burning fire.

Examples

• Adjective:

  • The firefighters battled the blazing building. (The building was intensely on fire.)
  • We sought shade from the blazing midday sun. (The sun was shining with extreme brightness and heat.)
  • It was a blazing example of corporate negligence. (The example was glaringly obvious.)

• Noun:

  • The blazing of the campfire lit up the night. (The strong flame of the campfire provided light.)

Advanced Usage

• "blazing a trail": To be a pioneer or innovator; to create a new path for others to follow. (This is an idiomatic use of the verb 'blaze' from which 'blazing' is derived).

  • The scientist is blazing a trail in renewable energy research.

• "blazing speed": Used to describe something happening with extreme, often astonishing, rapidity.

  • The news spread across the internet at blazing speed.

Variants and Related Words

• Blaze (verb/noun): The root word. As a verb, it means to burn fiercely or shine brightly. As a noun, it means a strong fire or a bright display.

  • The fire began to blaze out of control.
  • The garden was a blaze of color.

• Blazingly (adverb): An adverb form meaning in an extremely intense or obvious manner.

  • The argument was blazingly clear.

Synonyms

• Burning: On fire.
• Flaming: Emitting flames.
• Dazzling: Extremely bright.
• Glaring: Shining with a harsh light; also meaning very obvious.
• Blatant: Completely obvious, often in an offensive way (for the "obvious" sense).

Related Phrases

• Blazing row: (British English) A very loud, intense, and angry argument.

  • They had a blazing row over money.

• Blazing inferno: A phrase used to describe an extremely large and destructive fire.

  • The factory was reduced to a blazing inferno.

Related Idioms

• Go like blazes: To move or proceed very quickly.

  • When he heard the news, he went like blazes to the hospital.

• Blazing saddles: This is a famous film title; as an idiom, it is not standard. The word 'blazing' in the title evokes intensity and excitement.

Adjective

1. without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious
   • blatant disregard of the law
   • a blatant appeal to vanity
   • a blazing indiscretion
2. shining intensely
   • the blazing sun
   • blinding headlights
   • dazzling snow
   • fulgent patterns of sunlight
   • the glaring sun

Noun

1. a strong flame that burns brightly
   • the blaze spread rapidly