eye-searing

adjective

Painful to look at.

“Bright red light filled the room, it was eye-searing, yet strangely familiar.”

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Meanings

adjectiveeye-searing (comparative more eye-searing, superlative most eye-searing)

comparative more eye-searing · superlative most eye-searing

  1. Painful to look at.

    Bright red light filled the room, it was eye-searing, yet strangely familiar.

    2 more examples

    The packed opening night of Twain’s first UK tour since 2004 is an impressively barnstorming, thigh-slapping, eye-searing revue that marries her bulletproof back catalogue with a cautious sprinkle of new material.

    2018 September 20, Graeme Virtue, “Shania Twain review – barnstorming, thigh-slapping spectacular”, in The Guardian

    The perfect lockdown antidote: get in a plane and see New York, or the Amalfi coast, or the Himalayas, in eye-searing detail

    2020 August 18, Keith Stuart, “Microsoft Flight Simulator review – buckle in and see the world”, in The Guardian
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Chicago

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