Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Flashing; glittering; shining; gleaming; dazzling: as, “fulgid weapons,”
- Specifically In entom.; Of a bright, fiery red.
- Of a reddish-brown diaphanous color with red reflections, as displayed on the wings of certain Hymenoptera.
Wiktionary
- adj. Scintillant, coruscant; marked by fleeting flashes of radiant light.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. rare Shining; glittering; dazzling.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having brief brilliant points or flashes of light
Etymologies
- From Latin fulgidus, derived from fulgere. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“We are all in thrall to the fulgid patriarch that boils the summer sky.”
“But that which most excessively dazzled my sight, was a very black robe, fulgid with”
“THE tempest now relaxes, its impetus is spent, and a calm serenity gradually takes place; by noon they break away, the blue sky appears, the fulgid sun-beams spread abroad their animating light, and the steady western wind resumes his peaceful reign.”
“Through the brown shade the fulgid weapons shined:”
“aquatic gods," daemons with fulgid eyes, and all the rest of the”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fulgid’.
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phrontistery - f
from phrontistery.info
fabaceous, fabiform, fabulist, faburden, face-cord, facetiae, facia, facinorous, factious, factitious, factitive, factive and 418 more...
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color, light & sight
albedo, chromatography, chromatic, tone, penumbra, superluminal, diaphanous, iridescent, amethyst, opalescent, celadon, lapis and 38 more...
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dark and bright words of shine and fi...
scotophil, scotoma, scotia, shed, shadow, shade, scone, whiting, edelweiss, light, lightning, lucina and 349 more...
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words that end in -id
vellid, tabid, rapid, sapid, insipid, ibid, valid, acrid, arid, balanid, calid, felid and 35 more...
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Shining or Bright
Nouns meaning shining or bright
effulgent, resplendent, splendid, luminous, brilliant, radiant, lustrous, glowing, illuminating, gleaming, fulgent, fulgid and 4 more...
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exploring the -id
These are wonderful adjectives, but sometimes I mix them up.
vapid, insipid, torrid, arid, torpid, turgid, tepid, lucid, pellucid, gelid, horrid, viscid and 50 more...
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Rainbows?!
superciliary, iridal, welkin, heterochrome, gwydion, cerulean, supernal, prismatic, optics, hypethral, cerulific, serein and 29 more...
Tweets
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vanishedone Fitting... Dec 22, 2008
Telofy @ VanishedOne: egregious Dec 22, 2008
vanishedone Are there any other WeirdNet definitions that look quite so much like thesaurus entries? Edit: oddly enough, the definition for fulgent is nothing of the sort. Dec 20, 2008