Blister \Blis"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blistered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Blistering.]
To be affected with a blister or blisters; to have a blister
form on.
[1913 Webster]
Let my tongue blister. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
blistering \blistering\ adj.
1. harshly or corrosively critical in tone; -- of comments
about people or their actions. blistering criticism
Syn: acerb, acerbic, acid, bitter, caustic, scathing,
venomous, virulent, vitriolic.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. intensely hot. blistering sun
Syn: blistery.
[WordNet 1.5]
3. very fast; as, a blistering pace.
Syn: red-hot, scorching.
[WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
blistering
adj 1: harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing
otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid
comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies";
"bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes
about political assassination, talk-show hosts and
medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation" [syn: acerb,
acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, caustic, sulfurous,
sulphurous, venomous, virulent, vitriolic]
2: hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters;
"blistering sun" [syn: blistery]
3: very fast; "a blistering pace"; "got off to a hot start";
"in hot pursuit"; "a red-hot line drive" [syn: hot, red-hot]
4: marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing remarks
about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative railing"
[syn: scathing, scalding, vituperative]
n : the formation of vesicles [syn: vesiculation, vesication]
WordNet (r) 2.0
109 Moby Thesaurus words for "blistering":
afflict, annoy, ardent, baking, beaten, blasted, blazing, blebby,
bleeding, blessed, blistered, blistery, blooming, boiling, bother,
branding, broiling, bubbling, bubbly, burbling, burbly, burning,
burning hot, calcination, canicular, carbonated, carbonization,
cauterization, cautery, chiffon, cineration, combustion,
concremation, cracking, cremation, cupellation, cursed, cussed,
deflagration, destructive distillation, discomfort, distillation,
distilling, ebullient, effervescent, execrable, fatigue, feverish,
fiery, fizzy, flaming, flushed, grilling, heated, hot, hot as fire,
hot as hell, incineration, infernal, irk, irritate, jade,
like a furnace, like an oven, overheated, overwarm, oxidation,
oxidization, parching, piping hot, puffed, pyrolysis, red-hot,
refining, roasting, scalding, scorching, scorification, searing,
seething, self-immolation, simmering, singeing, sizzling,
sizzling hot, smelting, smoking hot, souffle, souffleed, sparkling,
spumescent, sudorific, suttee, sweating, sweaty, sweltering,
sweltry, the stake, thermogenesis, toasting, torrid, vesicant,
vesicated, vesication, vesicatory, vesicular, wear, whipped,
white-hot
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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