flaring

• POS: Adjective, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: flar=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

flaring, a. 

•  That flares; flaming or blazing unsteadily; shining out with a dazzling light.  [1913 Webster]

  "His [the sun's] flaring beams."  [1913 Webster]
•  Opening or speading outwards.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

flaring

ablaze, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, ardent, blatant, blazing, blinding, brazen, brazenfaced, burning, candent, candescent, colorful, comburent, conflagrant, crude, deltoid, extravagant, fan-shape, fan-shaped, fanlike, fanned, fanning, fiery, flabelliform, flagrant, flaming, flared, flashing, flashy, flaunting, flickering, fulgurant, fulgurating, fuming, garish, gaudy, glaring, glowing, gorgeous, guttering, ignescent, ignited, in a blaze, in a glow, in flames, incandescent, inflamed, kindled, live, living, loud, lurid, meretricious, meteoric, obtrusive, on fire, open, outspread, outstretched, overbright, patulous, raw, reeking, scintillant, scintillating, screaming, sensational, shameless, shrieking, smoking, smoldering, sparking, spectacular, splay, splayed, splaying, spraddled, spraddling, sprangled, sprangling, sprawling, sprawly, spread, spreading, stretched-out, tawdry, unextinguished, unfolded, unquenched, vulgar, wide-open, widespread

ROGET THESAURUS

flaring

Color

N color, hue, tint, tinge, dye, complexion, shade, tincture, cast, livery, coloration, glow, flush, tone, key, pure color, positive color, primary color, primitive complementary color, three primaries, spectrum, chromatic dispersion, broken color, secondary color, tertiary color, local color, coloring, keeping, tone, value, aerial perspective, chromatics, spectrum analysis, spectroscopy, chromatism, chromatography, chromatology, prism, spectroscope, spectrograph, spectrometer, colorimeter (optical instruments), pigment, coloring matter, paint, dye, wash, distemper, stain, medium, mordant, oil paint, colored, colorific, tingent, tinctorial, chromatic, prismatic, full-colored, high-colored, deep-colored, doubly-dyed, polychromatic, chromatogenous, tingible, bright, vivid, intense, deep, fresh, unfaded, rich, gorgeous, gay, gaudy, florid, gay, garish, rainbow-colored, multihued, showy, flaunting, flashy, raw, crude, glaring, flaring, discordant, inharmonious, mellow, pastel, harmonious, pearly, sweet, delicate, tender, refined.