SUFFUSED Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

suffused

verb

past tense of suffuse

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

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as in penetrated

to spread throughout a living room suffused with warm sunlight

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Recent Examples of suffused And, come evening, the ocean’s surface is suffused with gold as the sun dips beyond the horizon. —

Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Apr. 2026 The galleries were suffused with the tang of iron and old cum. —

Douglas Stuart, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026 It’s known as the cosmic microwave background, or CMB, and is made up of the light that was released when the hot, dense plasma that suffused the early universe cooled enough to form hydrogen atoms. —

Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Apr. 2026 Levy’s novel is comic but suffused with dread, replicating the internet era’s many disorienting bids for our attention. —

Emma Alpern, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2026 Lawrence’s vision of an arc of American history suffused with violence and injustice is obviously not one to which the current US administration would be at all sympathetic. —

Michael Lobel, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2026 Neighborhood residents will surely gravitate to the lush art deco-style lobby, suffused with thousands of plants and whimsical figurines. —

Travis Levius, Travel + Leisure, 1 Apr. 2026 Is such an existential shriek into the abyss, all while living in a society suffused by mind-numbing grief and nationalism, worth subjecting yourself to? —

David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2026 Many of the people who live in that dark world are suffused with a kind of energy—both positive and negative—that people who walk in broad daylight can’t begin to imagine. —

Literary Hub, 23 Mar. 2026

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These were easier to produce, and, imbued with the Shaker reputation for purity, were as good as gold.

— Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 4 May 2026
These associations are imbued with instructive purpose, as every creature offers its own teachings (for example, birds fly in formation, with each taking its turn in front, offering a lesson about the nature of leadership).

— Glenn Adamson, Artforum, 2 May 2026