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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bright, glowing |
| Synonyms: | beaming, brilliant, clear, crystal, effulgent, fulgent, illuminated, incandescent, lambent, lighted, lit, lucent, lucid, luminescent, lustrous, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, shining, translucent, transparent, vivid |
| Antonyms: | dark, dim, dull, gloomy |
| Main Entry: | ablaze |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brightly illuminated |
| Synonyms: | aflame, aglow, brilliant, flashing, gleaming, glowing, incandescent, luminous, radiant, refulgent, sparkling |
| Antonyms: | dark, dim |
| Main Entry: | beaming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | radiant; beautiful |
| Synonyms: | bright, brilliant, clinquant, effulgent, flashing, fulgent, gleaming, glistening, glittering, glowing, incandescent, lambent, lucent, luminous, refulgent, scintillating, sparkling |
| Antonyms: | ugly |
| Main Entry: | bright |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shining, glowing in appearance |
| Synonyms: | ablaze, aglow, alight, argent, auroral, beaming, blazing, brilliant, burning, burnished, coruscating, dazzling, effulgent, flashing, fulgent, fulgid, glaring, gleaming, glistening, glittering, glossy, golden, illuminated, illumined, incandescent, intense, irradiated, lambent, light, lighted, limpid, luminous, lustrous, mirrorlike, moonlit, phosphorescent, polished, radiant, relucent, resplendent, scintillating, shimmering, shiny, silvery, sparkling, sunlit, sunny, twinkling, vivid |
| Antonyms: | dark, dreary, dull, obscure, somber |
| Main Entry: | brilliant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shining, glowing in appearance |
| Synonyms: | ablaze, bright, clinquant, coruscating, dazzling, effulgent, flashy, fulgent, gleaming, glittering, glossy, incandescent, intense, lambent, lucent, luminous, lustrous, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, scintillating, showy, sparkling, vivid |
| Antonyms: | dark, dull, dulled |
| Main Entry: | clear |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cloudless, bright |
| Synonyms: | clarion, crystal, fair, fine, halcyon, light, luminous, pleasant, rainless, shining, shiny, sunny, sunshiny, unclouded, undarkened, undimmed |
| Antonyms: | cloudy, dark, dim, dull, fuzzy, gloomy, shadowy, unclear |
| Main Entry: | comprehensible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | understandable |
| Synonyms: | apprehensible, clear, coherent, comprehendible, conceivable, explicit, fathomable, graspable, intelligible, knowable, lucid, luminous, plain |
| Antonyms: | exclusive, incomplete, nonunderstandable, unintelligible |
| Main Entry: | crystal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clear, transparent |
| Synonyms: | clear-cut, limpid, lucent, lucid, luminous, pellucid, translucent, transpicuous, unblurred |
| Notes: | crystal from Greek krustallos, originally meant 'ice' and it is, properly, rock crystal - describing ornamental pieces or items of crystallized quartz; fine glass, when cut or etched, is called crystal - but often there is no crystallized quartz but rather lead and it is properly called lead crystal |
| Antonyms: | clouded, foggy |
| Main Entry: | glowing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | burning, bright |
| Synonyms: | aglow, beaming, flaming, florid, flush, flushed, gleaming, lambent, luminous, lustrous, phosphorescent, red, rich, rubicund, ruddy, sanguine, suffused, vibrant, vivid, warm |
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