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candescent

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of candescent

giving off or reflecting much light

the campers were transfixed by the candescent flames of their seashore fire

Synonyms of candescent

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

Words Related to candescent

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 of candescent

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

Antonyms of candescent

dim, dull, lackluster, unbright, unbrilliant

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