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incandescent
[ in-kuhn-des-uhnt ]
adjective
- (of light) produced by incandescence.
- glowing or white with heat.
- intensely bright; brilliant.
- brilliant; masterly; extraordinarily lucid:
an incandescent masterpiece; incandescent wit.
- aglow with ardor, purpose, etc.:
the incandescent vitality of youth.
Synonyms: ,
incandescent
/ ˌɪæˈɛəԳ /
adjective
- emitting light as a result of being heated to a high temperature; red-hot or white-hot
- informal.extremely angry; raging
Derived Forms
- ˌԳˈԳٱ, adverb
Other Word Forms
- c·cԳ· adverb
- ԴDzi··cԳ adjective
- ԴDzi··cԳ·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of incandescent1
Word History and Origins
Origin of incandescent1
Example Sentences
The fair’s chief architect, Daniel Hudson Burnham, created a wildly expensive campus of Beaux Arts white buildings, brought in designers including Frederick Law Olmsted, and wowed millions with a large-scale incandescent light display.
There are large mounds of California buckwheat, tall spires of sweet hummingbird sage and incandescently purple clusters of showy penstemon.
Trump is incandescent about the EU's massive trade surplus.
The challenge of writing about “Liberation Day” is that it is so incandescently stupid it amounts to a conceptual piñata: You can whack at it from any angle and get some reward for your effort.
He displayed his displeasure during his first term in office: furious about Europe's low defence spending; incandescent over the EU's trade surplus with the US.
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