Synonyms for BLINKING
blink·ing

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1. blinkingadjective

   Synonyms:
   blimming, blooming, blasted, winking

2. blinkingadjective

   That or who blinks or blink.

   a blinking light

   Synonyms:
   blasted, winking, blooming, blimming

3. blinkingadjective

   (British euphemistic slang) Bloody (in the coarse slang sense)

   Synonyms:
   blimming, winking, blasted, blooming

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1. blink, eye blink, blinking, wink, winking, nictitation, nictationadjective

   a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly

   Synonyms:
   instant, nictitation, blinking, flash, eye blink, split second, blink, heartbeat, jiffy, nictation, trice, winking, wink, twinkling, blink of an eye

   Antonyms:
   mitigated, opened, open

2. blinking, winkingadjective

   closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly

   "he stood blinking in the bright sunlight"

   Synonyms:
   crashing(a), blooming(a), blinking(a), flaming(a), bally(a), winking, bloody(a), blinking

   Antonyms:
   mitigated, open, opened

3. bally(a), blinking(a), bloody(a), blooming(a), crashing(a), flaming(a), fucking(a)adjective

   informal intensifiers

   "what a bally (or blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you flaming idiot"

   Antonyms:
   opened, mitigated, open

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1. List of paraphrases for "blinking":

   blink, flashing, flicker, flickering, intermittent, wink

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How to use BLINKING in a sentence?

1. D. H. Lawrence:

   We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

2. Dick Gregory:

   Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.

3. Dan Coats:

   The warning signs are there, the system is blinking. It is why I believe we are at a critical point.

4. Jannique Martinez:

   We noticed a little erratic behavior like these blinking lights that are on a sensor. When my family or any other family leaves or returns to their homes, they all start to blink, when the sensors are activated, loud music begins to play. He switches the music based on the family that is activating the music.

5. Dan Coats:

   The warning signs are there. The system is blinking, it is why I believe we are at a critical point.