| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | dazzling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | radiant |
| Synonyms: | beaming, bright, brilliant, flashy, glaring, glittering, ravishing, resplendent, sensational, shining, sparkling, splendid, stunning |
| 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: | glad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happy, delightful |
| Synonyms: | animated, beaming, beautiful, blithesome, bright, can't complain, cheerful, cheering, cheery, contented, exhilarated, felicitous, floating on air, gay, genial, gleeful, gratified, gratifying, hilarious, jocund, jovial, joyful, joyous, lighthearted, merry, mirthful, overjoyed, pleasant, pleased, pleased as punch, pleasing, radiant, rejoicing, sparkling, tickled, tickled pink, tickled to death, up, willing |
| Antonyms: | sad, unhappy |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | incandescent |
| 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: | 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 |