1.
A ~ light is extremely bright.
The doctor worked busily beneath the ~ lights of the delivery room.
= dazzling
ADJ: usu ADJ n
2.
You use ~ to emphasize that something is very obvious.
The miseries I went through made me suddenly realise with a ~ flash what life was all about.
ADJ: ADJ n emphasis
~ly
It is so ~ly obvious that defence must be the responsibility of the state.
ADV: ADV adj/adv
3.
Blinding pain is very strong pain.
There was a pain then, a quick, ~ agony that jumped along Danlo’s spine.
ADJ: usu ADJ n