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dazzling
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | forceful on the senses |
| Synonyms: | biting, bold, bright, brilliant, concentrated, dazzling, effective, fetid, full-bodied, glaring, hard, heady, high, highly flavored, highly seasoned, hot, inebriating, intoxicating, loud, malodorous, noisome, piquant, potent, powerful, pungent, pure, rancid, rank, rich, robust, sharp, spicy, stark, stimulating, stinking, straight, strong-flavored, undiluted, unmixed |
| Antonyms: | delicate, low, mild, moderate, pale, soft |
| Main Entry: | candescent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shining |
| Synonyms: | dazzling, glowing, hot, lit, luminescent, white |
| Main Entry: | sparkling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gleaming |
| Synonyms: | animated, bright, brilliant, bubbling, bubbly, coruscant, dazzling, effervescent, fizzy, flashing, glistening, glistering, glittering, impassioned, lambent, lively, mantling, scintillant, scintillating, shimmering, shining, spirited, starry, twinkling, vigorous |
| Antonyms: | dull, matte |
| Main Entry: | beamy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | radiant |
| Synonyms: | beaming, bright, brilliant, dazzling, effulgent, gleaming, gleamy, glowing, incandescent, irradiant, irradiating, lucent, luminous, lustrous, refulgent, resplendent, shiny |
| Main Entry: | irradiant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bright |
| Synonyms: | ablaze, aglow, alight, argent, auroral, beaming, beamy, 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, lucent, luminous, lustrous, mirrorlike, moonlit, phosphorescent, polished, radiant, refulgent, relucent, resplendent, scintillating, shimmering, shiny, silvery, sparkling, sunlit, sunny, twinkling, vivid |
| Main Entry: | lucent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bright |
| Synonyms: | ablaze, aglow, alight, argent, auroral, beaming, beamy, blazing, brilliant, burning, burnished, coruscating, dazzling, effulgent, flashing, fulgent, fulgid, glaring, gleaming, glistening, glittering, glossy, golden, illuminated, illumined, incandescent, intense, irradiant, irradiated, lambent, light, lighted, limpid, luminous, lustrous, mirrorlike, moonlit, phosphorescent, polished, radiant, refulgent, relucent, resplendent, scintillating, shimmering, shiny, silvery, sparkling, sunlit, sunny, twinkling, vivid |
| Main Entry: | pulchritudinous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beautiful |
| Synonyms: | admirable, alluring, angelic, appealing, attractive, beauteous, bewitching, charming, classy, comely, cute, dazzling, delicate, delightful, divine, easy on the eyes, elegant, enticing, excellent, exquisite, fair, fascinating, fine, foxy*, good-looking, gorgeous, graceful, grand, handsome, ideal, lovely, magnificent, marvelous, nice, pleasing, pretty, radiant, ravishing, refined, resplendent, shapely, sightly, splendid, statuesque, stunning, sublime, superb, symmetrical, taking, well-formed, wonderful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sightly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beautiful |
| Synonyms: | admirable, alluring, angelic, appealing, attractive, beauteous, bewitching, charming, classy, comely, cute, dazzling, delicate, delightful, divine, easy on the eyes, elegant, enticing, excellent, exquisite, fair, fascinating, fine, foxy*, good-looking, gorgeous, graceful, grand, handsome, ideal, lovely, magnificent, marvelous, nice, pleasing, pretty, pulchritudinous, radiant, ravishing, refined, resplendent, shapely, splendid, statuesque, stunning, sublime, superb, symmetrical, taking, well-formed, wonderful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | splendorous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | glorious |
| Synonyms: | august, beautiful, bright, brilliant, celebrated, dazzling, delightful, distinguished, effulgent, elevated, eminent, enjoyable, esteemed, exalted, excellent, famed, famous, fine, gorgeous, grand, gratifying, great, heavenly, heroic, honored, illustrious, immortal, magnificent, majestic, marvelous, memorable, noble, notable, noted, pleasurable, preeminent, proud, radiant, remarkable, renowned, resplendent, shining, splendid, sublime, superb, time-honored, triumphant, venerable, well-known, wonderful |
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