candescent

can·des·cent

adjective \-s^ənt\

Definition of CANDESCENT

: glowing or dazzling from or as if from great heat

Examples of CANDESCENT

1. <the campers were transfixed by the candescent coals of their seashore fire>

Origin of CANDESCENT

Latin candescent-, candescens, present participle of candescere, inchoative of candēre

First Known Use: 1808

Related to CANDESCENT

Synonyms

beaming, bedazzling, brilliant, bright, clear, dazzling, effulgent, fulgent, glowing, incandescent, lambent, lucent, lucid, luminous, lustrous, radiant, refulgent, sheeny, shining, shiny, splendid

Antonyms

dim, dull, lackluster, unbright, unbrilliant

Related Words

ablaze, ardent, blazing, burning, combusting, fiery, flaming, red-hot; agleam, aglitter, blinding, coruscant, flaring, flashing, flickering, gemmy, glancing, glaring, gleaming, glimmering, glinting, glistening, glistering, glittering, scintillant, scintillating, shimmering, shimmery, sparkling, sunny, twinkling, winking; burnished, polished, shined; superbright, ultrabright

Near Antonyms

blackened, dark, darkened, darkish, darkling, darksome, dimmed, dusky, gloomy, lightless, murky, obscure, obscured, pitch-black, pitch-dark, somber (or sombre), sunless, tenebrous, unlit; cloudy, shadowlike, shadowy, shady; gray (also grey), leaden, pale, palish

Rhymes with CANDESCENT

canescent, decrescent, depressant, fluorescent, incessant, increscent, liquescent, pearlescent, rufescent, suppressant, turgescent