Antonyms for blinkingblink·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

   Antonyms:
   mitigated, opened, open

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

2. blinking, winkingadjective

   closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly

   "he stood blinking in the bright sunlight"

   Antonyms:
   mitigated, open, opened

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

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

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. Stephen Worrell:

   But there is some uncertainty about whether the yuan devaluation is part of a controlled stimulus plan or a sign that Beijing is blinking in the face of greater weakness to come, and uncertainty always warrants caution.

3. Dan Coats:

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

4. The President:

   I'm here to say, the warning lights are blinking red again, dHS does not have evidence of the fact that anywhere near what happened in 2016.

5. Carolyn Maloney:

   The threats, I would say, were everywhere, the Norfolk Field FBI office notified The Norfolk Field FBI office. The Washington Post and other newspapers were writing about The Washington Post. The Washington Post was on radio, The Washington Post was on television, The Washington Post was on other social media streams. The system was blinking red.

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