Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Splendid or dazzling in appearance; brilliant.

from The Century Dictionary.

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

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Shining with brilliant luster; very bright.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Shiny and colourful, and thus pleasing to the eye.
  • adjective mathematics Exhibiting the property of resplendency in Peano arithmetic.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having great beauty and splendor

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin resplendēns, resplendent-, present participle of resplendēre, to shine brightly : re-, re- + splendēre, to shine.]

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From the obsolete sense of the English verb splendish ("to shine"), from Latin splendere ("to shine"), or from resplend +‎ -ent, from Latin resplendere.

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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.

    The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009

  • 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.

    The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009

  • 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.

    The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009

  • 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.

    The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009

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

    SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1020 2009

  • 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 2009

  • Behind them resplendent is the Lamb of the Apocalypse.

    10/01/2002 - 11/01/2002 John 2002

  • 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 1875

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

    III.7 1826

  • 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 G. M. Godden

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  • 'honey we're all resplendent'

    -- Bill Mallonee

    March 26, 2007

  • having great beauty and splendor.

    October 31, 2007

  • "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.

    November 11, 2008

  • 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

    July 26, 2011