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. George Eliot:

   Comprehensive talkers are apt to be tiresome when we are not athirst for information; but, to be quite fair, we must admit that superior reticence is a good deal due to lack of matter. Speech is often barren, but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled nest-egg; and, when it takes to cackling, will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

2. 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.

3. Dan Coats:

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

4. Dan Coats:

   The warning signs are there. The system is blinking. It is why I believe we are at a critical point, today, the digital infrastructure that serves this country is literally under attack.

5. Resident Carla Jackson:

   First there were real high winds and then a loud boom, and next thing you know the lights started blinking. We heard the transformer blow, then another transformer blow, and then it just went black.

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