coruscating

coruscating

English

Verb

coruscating

  1. present participle and gerund of coruscate

Noun

coruscating (plural coruscatings)

  1. Synonym of coruscation.
    • 1965, Marguerite Young, Miss MacIntosh, My Darling:
      There were tremblings, flashings, coruscatings of sparks which were dying as they were born.

Adjective

coruscating (comparative more coruscating, superlative most coruscating)

  1. Characterised by intellectual and rhetorical brilliance; blazing or glittering with rhetorical force.
  2. Scathingly critical; blistering.
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