What are some opposite words for flare?
Antonyms for flare
flɛərflare
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
flare
Light, strictly denoting a form of radiant energy, is used as a general term for any luminous effect discernible by the eye, from the faintest phosphorescence to the blaze of the noonday sun. A flame is both hot and luminous; if it contains few solid particles it will yield little light, tho it may afford intense heat, as in the case of a hydrogen-flame. A blaze is an extensive, brilliant flame. A flare is a wavering flame or blaze; a flash is a light that appears and disappears in an instant; as, a flash of lightning; the flash of gunpowder. The glare and glow are steady, the glare painfully bright, the glow subdued; as, the glare of torches; the glow of dying embers. Shine and shining refer to a steady or continuous emission of light; sheen is a faint shining, usually by reflection. Glimmer, glitter, and shimmer denote wavering light. We speak of the glimmer of distant lamps through the mist; of the shimmer of waves in sunlight or moonlight. A gleam is not wavering, but transient or intermittent; a sudden gleam of light came through the half-open door; a glitter is a hard light; as, the glitter of burnished arms. A sparkle is a sudden light, as of sparks thrown out; scintillation is the more exact and scientific term for the actual emission of sparks, also the figurative term for what suggests such emission; as, scintillations of wit or of genius. Twinkle and twinkling are used of the intermittent light of the fixed stars. Glistening is a shining as from a wet surface. Illumination is a wide-spread, brilliant light, as when all the windows of a house or of a street are lighted. The light of incandescence is intense and white like that from metal at a white heat.
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blackness, dark, darkness, dimness, dusk, gloom, gloominess, obscurity, shade, shadowSynonyms:
blaze, flame, flash, flicker, glare, gleam, gleaming, glimmer, glistening, glistering, glitter, glow, illumination, incandescence, light, luster, scintillation, sheen, shimmer, shine, shining, sparkle, twinkle, twinkling
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Princeton's WordNet
flare, flairnoun
a shape that spreads outward
"the skirt had a wide flare"
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solar flare, genius, flash, flare pass, elan, panache, flair, style, dashflarenoun
a sudden burst of flame
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flair, flare pass, flash, solar flareflare, flashnoun
a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate
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solar flare, instant, flashbulb, flashgun, heartbeat, flash, news bulletin, flair, photoflash, split second, flash bulb, wink, flare pass, newsbreak, flashing, newsflash, jiffy, ostentation, flash lamp, blink of an eye, fanfare, trice, twinklingflarenoun
reddening of the skin spreading outward from a focus of infection or irritation
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flair, flare pass, flash, solar flareflarenoun
a sudden recurrence or worsening of symptoms
"a colitis flare"; "infection can cause a lupus flare"
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flair, flare pass, flash, solar flaresolar flare, flarenoun
a sudden eruption of intense high-energy radiation from the sun's surface; associated with sunspots and radio interference
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flair, flare pass, flash, solar flareflarenoun
am unwanted reflection in an optical system (or the fogging of an image that is caused by such a reflection)
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flair, flare pass, flash, solar flareflarenoun
a sudden outburst of emotion
"she felt a flare of delight"; "she could not control her flare of rage"
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flair, flare pass, flash, solar flareflarenoun
a device that produces a bright light for warning or illumination or identification
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flair, flare pass, flash, solar flareflare pass, flarenoun
a short forward pass to a back who is running toward the sidelines
"he threw a flare to the fullback who was tackled for a loss"
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flair, flare pass, flash, solar flareflareverb
(baseball) a fly ball hit a short distance into the outfield
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flair, flare pass, flash, solar flareflare, flame up, blaze up, burn upverb
burn brightly
"Every star seemed to flare with new intensity"
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flame up, irrupt, erupt, burn down, burn off, flare up, burn up, blaze up, burn, break open, go up, flame, burst out, flare outflare out, flareverb
become flared and widen, usually at one end
"The bellbottom pants flare out"
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flame up, erupt, irrupt, flare up, burn up, blaze up, break open, flame, burst out, flare outflare, flameverb
shine with a sudden light
"The night sky flared with the massive bombardment"
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flame up, irrupt, erupt, flare up, burn up, blaze up, break open, flame, burst out, flare outerupt, irrupt, flare up, flare, break open, burst outverb
erupt or intensify suddenly
"Unrest erupted in the country"; "Tempers flared at the meeting"; "The crowd irrupted into a burst of patriotism"
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come out, flare up, intrude, catch fire, ignite, blaze up, break through, extravasate, belch, burn up, flare out, break open, break, burst, break out, combust, irrupt, erupt, flame, burst out, flame up, split, explode, conflagrate, push through, recrudesce, take fire, pop out
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How to use flare in a sentence?
I’ve been major flare-free for six years and have slowly been able to accomplish the goals I had before I was diagnosed.
The crisis is being handled. ... Some areas that were very hard-hit are now doing very well. Some were doing very well, and we thought they may be gone and they flare up, and we're putting out the fires.
Most of the time, these are quiet places with nothing going on, but they’re apt to flare up.
It's still a fluid situation, there have been a number of flare-ups.
The rule should be that kids go back to school this fall. And where there are little flare-ups or hot spots, that can be dealt with on a school-by-school or a case-by-case basis.
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