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Synonyms for staring
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  1. agaze, staringadjective

    (used of eyes) open and fixed as if in fear or wonder

    "staring eyes"

    Synonyms:
    sodding(a), complete(a), thoroughgoing(a), staring(a), everlasting(a), agaze, utter(a), perfect(a), gross(a), consummate(a), unadulterated, arrant(a), stark(a), double-dyed(a), pure(a)

    Antonyms:
    closed, mitigated, shut

  2. arrant(a), complete(a), consummate(a), double-dyed(a), everlasting(a), gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a), sodding(a), stark(a), staring(a), thoroughgoing(a), utter(a), unadulteratedadjective

    without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers

    "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth"

    Antonyms:
    closed, shut, mitigated

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  1. List of paraphrases for "staring":

    watching

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#14986staring
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How to use staring in a sentence?

  1. Benjamin Weiss:

    If you look at these images, you're basically staring at this epic desert landscape. It's the most forlorn place you could ever visit, there's not a drop of water anywhere, and yet, here Perseverances Martian rock samples have evidence of a very different past. Something very profound happened in the planet's history.

  2. Greta Thunberg:

    The fact that you are staring at a panel of young people testifying before you today pleading for a livable earth should not fill you with pride; it should fill you with shame.

  3. Read MoreAt first:

    He( kept) staring at me.

  4. J. R. R. Tolkien:

    There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.

  5. Janvier Chouteu-Chando:

    Expose human ties for what they really are and you are most likely to find the worst forms of betrayal staring back at you.”


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