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. figuratively 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
- From Latin refulgentem, accusative singular of refulgēns, present active participle of refulgeō, from re- ("back") + fulgeō ("shine"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin refulgēns, refulgent-, present participle of refulgēre, to flash back : re-, re- + fulgēre, to flash; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“(I found this remarkable in a medical man: between trouser hem and refulgent loafer, a gleam of bronzed ankle.)”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Recorded at the 2009 Salzburg Festival, with pianist Daniel Barenboim capturing the teasing allure of the Rimsky material and the more rhapsodic welling-up of feeling in the Tchaikovsky, Netrebko delivers her accustomed refulgent tone in many of the songs.”
“We never arrive in the refulgent ever-new possibilities of the present.”
“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.”
“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.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘refulgent’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
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abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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GRE Barron's 800
abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abject, abjure, abscission, abscond, abstemious, abstinence, abysmal, accretion and 787 more...
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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SAT Words
But only the ones that I don't already know.
abase, abash, abominate, abstruse, acclivity, accolade, accost, adroit, adulate, adulterate, adumbrate, affray and 241 more...
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zarf, liripipe, theandric, tazza, bobeche, autotelic, gonfalon, refulgent, crepuscular, caduceus, knop, labarum and 46 more...
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Reading 2nd Round
fugitive, hearth, elixir, perpetrator, surreal, tavern, stalk, strut, duress, cavil, intriguing, banister and 10 more...
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Hit Parade GRE
Princeton Review words
abscond, aberrant, alacrity, anomaly, approbation, arduous, assuage, audacious, austere, axiomatic, canonical, capricious and 287 more...
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SAT Words
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abase, abash, abominate, abstruse, acclivity, accolade, accost, adroit, adulate, adulterate, adumbrate, affray and 241 more...
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difficult words
ordure, tatterwallop, callipygian, odious, colophon, cynosure, hardener, emollience, valetudinarian, demonym, volage, polysemantic and 283 more...
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Carlos' Words
monstropolous, absquatulate
triffid, calque, pinguid, refulgent, monstropolous, Seanchaí, clinquant, Chryselephantine ..., peavey, milium, swage, Burtillon, Burtil... and 263 more...
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ill-suited words
Words that don't seem to fit their definitions.
jejune, palimpsest, refulgent, splenetic, pulchritude, bulkhead, crepuscule
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1st cut
abeyance, abscission, abyss, accretion, acidulous, adulterate, adumbrate, aerie, ameliorate, anachoronistic, analgesia, anodyne and 315 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for refulgent.
sera incandescence is refulgent Aug 13, 2007
jrome Overseen on Twitter.com: @molly have you become twitterpated? Maybe you can reward yourself by twittering any particularly refulgent adjectives you use. 3 minutes ago from im Jan 12, 2007
plumpesdenken "The once refulgent reign of Queen Elizabeth..." Dec 3, 2006