blaze

blaze

noun

Definition of BLAZE

1

a sudden intense expression of strong feeling <she felt a blaze of resentment upon hearing that she had been passed over for promotion>

Synonyms agony, blaze, burst, ebullition, eruption, explosion, fit, flare, flare-up, flash, flush, gale, gush, gust, paroxysm, spasm, storm

Related Words blowup, grouch, rage, tantrum; ecstasy, rapture, transport; delirium, firestorm, frenzy, furor

2

the steady giving off of the form of radiation that makes vision possible <temporarily blinded by the blaze of dozens of camera lights>

Synonyms blaze, flare, fluorescence, glare, gleam, glow, illumination, incandescence, luminescence, radiance, shine

Related Words flash, glimmer, glint, glitter, scintillation, shimmer, sparkle, twinkle; daylight, moonlight, sunlight, sunshine; afterglow, aureole (or aureola), aurora, beam, halo, ray, shaft, streak, stream, sunbeam; glisten, gloss, luster (or lustre), polish, reflection, sheen

Near Antonyms blackness, dark, darkness, dimness, dusk, duskiness, gloom, night, shadow