Synonyms of suffused

suffused

verb

past tense of suffuse

1

as in imbued

to cause (as a person) to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle

she was suffused with an overwhelming feeling of liberation as her horse broke into a gallop

Synonyms & Similar Words

• imbued
• infused
• steeped
• filled
• flooded
• invested
• inoculated
• inculcated
• charged
• enlivened
• overwhelmed
• planted
• animated
• permeated
• pervaded
• ingrained
• endued
• drowned
• saturated
• instilled
• invigorated
• submerged
• impregnated
• leavened
• implanted
• inundated
• deluged

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• deprived
• stripped
• removed
• cleared
• divested
• eliminated
• took (away)
• emptied

2

as in penetrated

to spread throughout

a living room suffused with warm sunlight

Synonyms & Similar Words

• penetrated
• pervaded
• permeated
• flooded
• riddled
• transfused
• interpenetrated
• saturated
• imbued
• impregnated
• passed (into)
• percolated (into)
• infused
• filled (up)
• diffused (through)
• soaked
• drenched
• steeped
• glutted

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of suffused

After setting her wildly popular debut The Tiger's Wife in a Balkans suffused with myth and magic, the author turned in subsequent books to the Old West and a city redolent of New York. — Colin Dwyer, NPR, 4 Aug. 2026

The threat is still there, suffused into the air like a memory, but for a time the choice between love and survival no longer feels mutually exclusive to Nino and Yasmina. — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 22 July 2026

Good binoculars will reveal a score of stars in this little group, while long-exposure observatory photographs show about 1000 in the area — all suffused in great clouds and streamers of nebulous light. — Joe Rao, Space.com, 10 July 2026

Lyrically, these 10 songs are suffused with a bittersweet feeling of nostalgia for early adulthood, as heard on the album’s title track. — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 9 July 2026

His brow is porcelain-smooth and suffused with light, his locks glossy and curled, his nose straight and regular. — Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 3 July 2026

The seductive serenity of the Alps on a sunny day suffused the scene. — William Finnegan, New Yorker, 29 June 2026

The standout is a grand, otherworldly picture, devoid of human and animal life but suffused with strange light, and the majesty and menace of colossal ice in moving water. — Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 13 June 2026

The experiment might sound sentimental, but Chakraborty, the production’s secret weapon, maintains a scientific restraint, albeit one suffused with maternal anguish. — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026