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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Splendid or dazzling in appearance; brilliant.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Shining with brilliant luster; very bright; splendid.
  2. In heraldry, issuing rays: said especially of the sun, sometimes of clouds. See radiant, 3.
  3. Synonyms Glorious, beaming. See radiance.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Shiny and colourful, and thus pleasing to the eye.
  2. adj. mathematics Exhibiting the property of resplendency in Peano arithmetic.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Shining with brilliant luster; very bright.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. having great beauty and splendor

Etymologies

  1. From the obsolete sense of the English verb splendish ("to shine"), from Latin splendere ("to shine"), or from resplend +‎ -ent, from Latin resplendere. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin resplendēns, resplendent-, present participle of resplendēre, to shine brightly : re-, re- + splendēre, to shine. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Shes talking to another woman with the same short curly brown hair, whos looking resplendent I always wanted to use the word resplendent and never had a chance before in some swaying, beaded skirt.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Fortunes of Indigo Skye

  • “Darth Vader is the ultimate heavy breathing villain resplendent in black.”

    SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1020

  • “Washington (CNN) - Tables set in resplendent colors - apple green, ruby, gold - with floral arrangements of roses, hydrangeas and sweet peas in plum, purple and fuchsia awaited guests to Tuesday's White House state dinner.”

    Resplendent colors highlight setting for state dinner

  • “Behind them resplendent is the Lamb of the Apocalypse.”

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  • “The morning vapors were fast rolling their snowy wreaths down the opposite mountains, whose heads, shining in resplendent purple, seemed to view themselves in the bright reflections of the now smooth sea.”

    The Scottish Chiefs

  • “Nature, or nature's favourite, this lovely earth, presented her most unrivalled beauties in resplendent and sudden exhibition.”

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  • “Looking back on the incident it seems matter for yet more Homeric laughter that Richardson should have called the resplendent genius of Fielding”

    Henry Fielding: a Memoir

  • “Looking back on the incident it seems matter for yet more Homeric laughter that Richardson should have called the resplendent genius of Fielding “low.””

    Henry Fielding A Memoir

  • “One is rotten and the other resplendent, that is all.”

    Là-bas

  • “Look on the bright side though, once those evil Toreeees get into power our screens will be 'resplendent' with lots of these tossers like Hardy, Brigstocke, Steel and co laying into the 'government' which oddly they have been reticent to do for the last, oh let me see, 12 years...”

    SNEERING COMEDIANS....

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synonyms (1)

Words with the same meaning

  1. bright

equivalents (1)

Other words for ‘resplendent’

  1. beautiful

same context (15)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. radiant
  2. gorgeous
  3. celestial
  1. scarlet
  2. gaudy
  3. majestic
  1. beauteous
  2. lustrous
  3. attired
  1. ethereal
  2. pearly
  3. regal
  1. azure
  2. sombre
  3. iridescent

rhymes (12)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. ascendant
  2. attendant
  1. defendant
  2. dependent
  1. descendant
  2. descendent
  1. independent
  2. interdependent
  1. pendant
  2. superintendant
  1. superintendent
  2. transcendent

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. lucid
  2. lucent
  3. blaze
  4. resplendently
  5. resplendish
  6. resplendishant
  1. sunburst
  2. lampris
  3. emblazon
  4. effulgent
  5. refulgent
  6. bright
  1. dog collar
  2. resplend
  3. flamboyant
  4. transplendent
  5. quesal
  6. resplendence
  1. resplendishing
  2. silver
  3. sunshiny
  4. trogon
  5. brilliant
  6. burnish
  1. deck
  2. glorious
  3. gorgeous
  4. luminous
  5. radiant
  6. shining
  1. splendent
  2. shield-bearer

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  • kingparton The sea and fields were still, as the setting sun vied with the resplendent red garments of our ladies for favor in the eyes of all.

    Iharu Saikuku, Five Women Who Loved Love Jul 26, 2011

  • bilby "All around the Pope glittered the gorgeous papal court, resplendent in a variety of colors."
    - Arnaldo Cortesi, '300,000 Hail Pope at Easter Service', New York Times, 16 April 1929. Nov 11, 2008

  • jeffazi having great beauty and splendor.


    Oct 30, 2007

  • seanmeade 'honey we're all resplendent'

    -- Bill Mallonee Mar 26, 2007

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