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phosphorescent
adjective as in bright
Strongest matches
adjective as in glowing
adjective as in incandescent
adjective as in irradiant
Weak matches
- 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
- polished
- radiant
- refulgent
- relucent
- resplendent
- scintillating
- shimmering
- shiny
- silvery
- sparkling
- sunlit
- sunny
- twinkling
- vivid
adjective as in light
adjective as in lucent
Weak matches
- 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
- polished
- radiant
- refulgent
- relucent
- resplendent
- scintillating
- shimmering
- shiny
- silvery
- sparkling
- sunlit
- sunny
- twinkling
- vivid
adjective as in luminescent
Weak matches
adjective as in shining
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Example Sentences
Even without drinking the phosphorescent liquid, I can taste the sweetness of the artificial syrup I once savored.
I marveled at her brilliant and gorgeous white flowers, especially during the magical blue hour when she would almost seem phosphorescent.
An assemblage of neon feathers and phosphorescent beads burst out of drawers and scattered across the floor.
He encountered the massive Rafflesia flower, which featured nearly two-foot-wide scarlet petals and smelled like a rotting corpse, and a phosphorescent fungus that emitted enough light at night to allow him to read a newspaper.
Mr. Abbiati lauded the “phosphorescent beauty” of her tones, and “her technical agility, which is more than rare — it is unique.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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