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, 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)

   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. 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.

2. Dan Coats:

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

3. 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.

4. Stephen Worrell:

   This is by no means a panic or trend-inducing kind of caution, 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.

5. Giuseppe Pomilla:

   We couldn't understand if he was alive or dead. He had his eyes wide open looking at us. He was not blinking, not moving or talking. We only realized he was alive when he grabbed us suddenly.