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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | glowing |
| Synonyms: | beaming, brilliant, effulgent, fulgent, intense, lambent, lucent, luminous, phosphorescent, radiant, red-hot, refulgent, shining, white-hot |
| Notes: | incandescent means having a filament which glows white-hot when heated by a current passed through it; fluorescent means based on fluorescence from a substance illuminated by ultraviolet light |
| 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: | burning |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | blazing, flashing |
| Synonyms: | afire, aflame, alight, blistering, broiling, conflagrant, enkindled, fiery, flaming, flaring, gleaming, glowing, heated, hot, ignited, illuminated, in flames, incandescent, kindled, on fire, oxidizing, red-hot, scorching, searing, sizzling, smoking, smouldering, torrid, white-hot |
| Antonyms: | cold, cool |
| Main Entry: | effulgent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | glowing, luminous |
| Synonyms: | beaming, blazing, bright, brilliant, dazzling, flaming, fluorescent, incandescent, lambent, lucent, lustrous, radiant, resplendent, shining, splendid, vivid |
| Main Entry: | hot |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very high in temperature |
| Synonyms: | baking, blazing, blistering, boiling, broiling, burning, calescent, close, decalescent, febrile, fevered, feverish, feverous, fiery, flaming, heated, humid, igneous, incandescent, like an oven, on fire, ovenlike, parching, piping, recalescent, red*, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, sizzling, smoking, steaming, stuffy, sultry, summery, sweltering, sweltry, thermogenic, torrid, tropic, tropical, very warm, warm, white* |
| Antonyms: | cold, cool, freezing, frigid |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lucid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brilliant, shining |
| Synonyms: | beaming, bright, effulgent, gleaming, incandescent, lambent, luminous, lustrous, radiant, refulgent, resplendent |
| Antonyms: | cloudy, dark, gloomy, murky, shadowy |
| Main Entry: | luminous |
| 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 |
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