incandescent

Speech parts

1. incandescent - Noun

2. incandescent - Adjective

3. incandescent - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

White, glowing, or luminous, with intense heat; as, incandescent carbon or platinum; hence, clear; shining; brilliant.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

shining blazing bright burning brilliant luminous glowing radiant glittering red-hot gleaming resplendent scintillating effulgent candent
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Antonyms

bowery black unruffled darkling phlegmatic stygian
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Phrases with the word

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Examples

The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies. Stephen King

Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark. Yann Martel

It was not socialism or communism or Islamism. It was romanticism. There is no more incandescent passion than love in a time of revolution. Ian McDonald

For the sake of one soul. For one loved one. For one life." I called power into my blasting rod, and its tip glowed incandescent white. "The way I see it, there's nothing else worth fighting a war for" -Harry Dresden. Jim Butcher

The sun as it's halted Miraculously exalted Resumes its descent Incandescent. Stéphane Mallarmé

Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers. Brenda Ueland

Close letter words and terms

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