BURNINGLY Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

burningly

adverb

Definition of burningly

as in blazingly

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Prebuilt laptops and desktops tricked out with cutting-edge graphics cards, gorgeous screens, blazingly fast processors, and tons of RAM are available for the lowest prices of the year.

— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 24 June 2026
And out rushes a blazingly cathartic torrent of honesty and horror.

— Sibani Ram, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2026

Definition of blazingly

Adverb

An incandescently perfect film?

— Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 24 Mar. 2026
Carpenter gets several musical numbers, an obvious but entertaining love triangle with a sheepish Kermit and an incandescently jealous Miss Piggy, and plenty of opportunities for self-aware, PG-13 humor.

— Judy Berman, Time, 3 Feb. 2026

Definition of incandescently

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The wild card in the Society is Gloria (Greta Lee, dazzlingly good), an impish sprite who’s hard to pin down.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026
The students who wrote these letters are a dazzlingly multilingual crowd, natural storytellers who can toggle between three or four languages in the same conversation.

— Ryan Lenora Brown, Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of dazzlingly

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Others are luminously, freakishly beautiful, in ways that seem designed to appeal to beings from other solar systems.

— Rosa Lyster, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
Bogdanovich’s breakthrough came in 1971 with The Last Picture Show, an ensemble drama about growing up in a small Texas town, sensitively told and luminously shot.

— Lili Anolik, Vanity Fair, 12 Jan. 2026

Definition of luminously

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The gorgeous part is the richness of Cleage’s characters, radiantly realized by all four actors under Jackson’s warm direction.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
After a bit of back-and-forth, one of the crew members grabbed a plastic bag and handed it to a tall, radiantly handsome Canadian actor named Marc.

— Chang Che, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026

Definition of radiantly

Adverb

In an interview with Spanish sports newspaper AS in June, De la Torre spoke glowingly about his colleague and friend and the key to their success on the south coast.

— Andy Jones, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026
Police critics speak less glowingly about the possible end to oversight, noting that police still have not identified a homeless man killed by officers on July 13.

— Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of glowingly

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