adazzle
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Illuminated so as to dazzle.
Example Sentences
- "1832, John Wilson, Noctes Ambrosianæ No. LX, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 32, No. 190, February 1832, p. 281, […] let [a poet] speak of a man-of-war in a style that shows he knows a frigate from a three-decker, a cutter from a schooner […] , and Neptune shall be to him Apollo, the Nereids the Muses, and every line shall be a line of light—all a-dazzle with appropriate words, surcharged with the imagery of the great deep."
- "The dust rose up in thick clouds, thickened yet more by the sunlight held in them; for the dead air of the hollow was a-dazzle."
- "It was an æsthetic education to live within those walls, to wander from room to room, from the Soanesque library to the Chinese drawing-room, adazzle with gilt pagodas and nodding mandarins […]"
- "By the time they entered Washington, it was dark and the lights of the city were all adazzle."
Etymology
From a- + dazzle.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: a
Inflected Forms
more adazzle (comparative)
most adazzle (superlative)