'Flaring' definitions:
Definition of 'flaring'
From: WordNet
adjective
Streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air; "ran quickly, her flaring coat behind her"; "flags aflare in the breeze" [syn: aflare, flaring]
Definition of 'Flaring'
From: GCIDE
- Flaring \Flar"ing\, a.
- 1. That flares; flaming or blazing unsteadily; shining out with a dazzling light. [1913 Webster]
- His [the sun's] flaring beams. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Opening or speading outwards. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Flaring'
From: GCIDE
- Flare \Flare\ (fl[^a]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flared (fl[^a]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Flaring.] [Cf. Norw. flara to blaze, flame, adorn with tinsel, dial. Sw. flasa upp, and E. flash, or flacker.]
- 1. To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To shine out with gaudy colors; to flaunt; to be offensively bright or showy. [1913 Webster]
- With ribbons pendant, flaring about her head. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To be exposed to too much light. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Flaring in sunshine all the day. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To open or spread outwards; to project beyond the perpendicular; as, the sides of a bowl flare; the bows of a ship flare. [1913 Webster]
- To flare up, to become suddenly heated or excited; to burst into a passion. [Colloq.] --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'flaring'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ablaze,
- afire,
- aflame,
- aflicker,
- aglow,
- alight,
- ardent,
- blatant,
- blazing,
- blinding,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- burning,
- candent,
- candescent,
- colorful,
- comburent,
- conflagrant,
- crude,
- deltoid,
- extravagant,
- fan-shape,
- fan-shaped,
- fanlike,
- fanned,
- fanning,
- fiery,
- flabelliform,
- flagrant,
- flaming,
- flared,
- flashing,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- flickering,
- fulgurant,
- fulgurating,
- fuming,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- glaring,
- glowing,
- gorgeous,
- guttering,
- ignescent,
- ignited,
- in a blaze,
- in a glow,
- in flames,
- incandescent,
- inflamed,
- kindled,
- live,
- living,
- loud,
- lurid,
- meretricious,
- meteoric,
- obtrusive,
- on fire,
- open,
- outspread,
- outstretched,
- overbright,
- patulous,
- raw,
- reeking,
- scintillant,
- scintillating,
- screaming,
- sensational,
- shameless,
- shrieking,
- smoking,
- smoldering,
- sparking,
- spectacular,
- splay,
- splayed,
- splaying,
- spraddled,
- spraddling,
- sprangled,
- sprangling,
- sprawling,
- sprawly,
- spread,
- spreading,
- stretched-out,
- tawdry,
- unextinguished,
- unfolded,
- unquenched,
- vulgar,
- wide-open,
- widespread