Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Shining radiantly; resplendent.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Emitting or reflecting a bright light; shining; splendid.
Wiktionary
- adj. Resplendent, or shining brightly and radiantly.
- adj. As if giving off light or warmth.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Casting a bright light; radiant; brilliant; resplendent; shining; splendid.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. radiating or as if radiating light
Etymologies
- Latin refulgēns, refulgent-, present participle of refulgēre, to flash back : re-, re- + fulgēre, to flash; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“She had once been sweet and warm and refulgent, the perfect valentine, but now it felt that, if she desired to do so, her gaze could levitate me.”
“You are a fine player… even if your refulgent threads are from Huggy Bear's dismal 1975 spring collection.”
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“I didn`t know `refulgent` which apparently is `radiating light`.”
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“In June of the following year, another refulgent sculpture from Koons's iconic "Celebration Series," the similarly candy-colored "Balloon Flower (Magenta)," surpassed that price, fetching $25.7 million in a Christie's showroom.”
“Now that I think about it, Corona does somewhat look like Madonna, despite her "refulgent peach-pink skin gleaming like translucent glass, almost porcelain to the eye, and her golden hair resembling fiber optic cables of fey brilliance.”
“(I found this remarkable in a medical man: between trouser hem and refulgent loafer, a gleam of bronzed ankle.)”
“He paused in his march toward the command-deck lift and regarded her with his eerie insectoid gaze, his eyes refulgent with their own internal light.”
“We never arrive in the refulgent ever-new possibilities of the present.”
“In June of the following year, another refulgent sculpture from Koons's iconic "Celebration Series," the similarly candy-colored "Balloon Flower Magenta," surpassed that price, fetching $25.7 million in a Christie's showroom.”
“The globules of dried sap on the papery bark looked like frozen drops of blood, the deep crimson refulgent with trapped sunlight.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘refulgent’.
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Logolepsy
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
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abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4084 more...
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briwref's list
defalcation, macerate, beldam, nescience, ochlocracy, bibelot, estivate, spatulated, introversive, mastoidal, belletristic, objurgation and 108 more...
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O So Zhinsky!
zarf, liripipe, theandric, tazza, bobeche, autotelic, gonfalon, refulgent, crepuscular, caduceus, knop, labarum and 31 more...
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Light!
lambent, scintillant, refulgent, lucent, agile, gossamery, clarion, luminary, heliograph, lodestar, pharos, heliotrope
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Energetic
braze, raze, brisance, brisant, rive, catalyze, whipsaw, crack, actinic, sublimate, animate, vitalize and 88 more...
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2008 Wordlist
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All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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abscond, aberrant, alacrity, anomaly, approbation, arduous, assuage, audacious, austere, axiomatic, canonical, capricious and 287 more...
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Verbal Advantage List
ostensible, paraphrase, digress, uncanny, candor, morose, adept, saturated, pragmatic, congenial, capricious, blatant and 487 more...
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essential words(51-61)
necessary
reparation, repine, reprise, reproach, repudiate, rescind, reticent, recluse, recondite, redoubtable, refulgent, refute and 113 more...
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difficult words
ordure, tatterwallop, callipygian, odious, colophon, cynosure, hardener, emollience, valetudinarian, demonym, volage, polysemantic and 171 more...
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Jane Eyre
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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antioxidant, rambla, trafficking, volplane, sluice, jettison, insomnolence, egyptiac, claque, provincial, satisfice, trumpery and 95 more...
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ill-suited words
Words that don't seem to fit their definitions.
jejune, palimpsest, refulgent, splenetic, pulchritude, bulkhead
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Just 'cause I like 'em, R
retinol, rectory, rhubarb, rancor, recension, rood, redivivus, roborate, redound, ripsnorting, ragtag, recruit and 250 more...
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