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incandescent

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of incandescent

1 giving off or reflecting much light
  • sitting in darkness, except for the incandescent coals of our campfire
Synonyms of incandescent

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

ablaze, ardent, blazing, burning, combusting, fiery, flaming, red-hot

agleam, aglitter, blinding, coruscant, flaring, flashing, flickering, glancing, glaring, gleaming, glimmering, glinting, glistening, glistering, glittering, scintillant, scintillating, shimmering, shimmery, sparkling, sunny, twinkling, winking

burnished, polished, shined

superbright, ultrabright
Near Antonyms of incandescent

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 incandescent

dim, dull, lackluster, unbright, unbrilliant
2 having or expressing great depth of feeling
  • a speaker incandescent with righteous anger
Synonyms of incandescent

ardent, blazing, burning, charged, demonstrative, emotional, fervent, fervid, feverish, fiery, flaming, glowing, hot-blooded, impassioned, intense, passional, passionate, perfervid, red-hot, religious, torrid, vehement, warm, warm-blooded
Words Related to incandescent

gushing, gushy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, saccharine, sappy, schmaltzy, sentimental, sloppy, sugary

histrionic, melodramatic

enthusiastic, gung ho, keen, zealous

enamored, infatuated, obsessed

uninhibited, unreserved, unrestrained

frenzied, orgiastic, overemotional, overexcited, overheated
Phrases Synonymous with incandescent

on fire
Near Antonyms of incandescent

detached, dry, impersonal, objective

reserved, undemonstrative
Antonyms of incandescent

cold, cool, dispassionate, emotionless, impassive, unemotional

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