Word Meanings - EFFULGENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Diffusing a flood of light; shining; luminous; beaming; bright; splendid. "Effulgent rays of light." Cowper.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EFFULGENT)

• Relucent
• Bright
• shining
• gleaming
• glittering
• flashing
• lum nous
• radiant
• crystalline
• pellucid
• effulgent

Related words: (words related to EFFULGENT)

• BRIGHT
  See I
• SHINTIYAN; SHINTYAN
  A kind of wide loose drawers or trousers worn by women in Mohammedan countries.
• SHINDLE
  A shingle; also, a slate for roofing. Holland.
• SHINGLER
  1. One who shingles. 2. A machine for shingling puddled iron.
• RADIANT ENGINE
  A semiradial engine. See Radial engine, above.
• PELLUCIDITY; PELLUCIDNESS
  The quality or state of being pellucid; transparency; translucency; clearness; as, the pellucidity of the air. Locke.
• PELLUCIDLY
  In a pellucid manner.
• SHINNEY
  The game of hockey; -- so called because of the liability of the players to receive blows on the shin. Halliwell.
• SHIN
  A fish plate for rails. Knight. Shin bone , the tibia. -- Shin leaf , a perennial ericaceous herb with a cluster of radical leaves and a raceme of greenish white flowers. (more info) scina, G. schiene, schienbein, Dan. skinnebeen, Sw. skenben.
• SHINPLASTER
  Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar.
• FLASHING
  The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.
• SHINGLE
  Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.
• CRYSTALLINE
  1. Consisting, or made, of crystal. Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline. Shak. 2. Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture. Their crystalline structure. Whewell. 3. Imperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only crystalline,
• BRIGHTSOME
  Bright; clear; luminous; brilliant. Marlowe.
• SHINGLY
  Abounding with shingle, or gravel.
• SHINTOIST
  An adherent of Shintoism.
• GLEAM
  To disgorge filth, as a hawk.
• FLASH
  1. To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed. 2. To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight; to show a momentary
• EFFULGENT
  Diffusing a flood of light; shining; luminous; beaming; bright; splendid. "Effulgent rays of light." Cowper.
• SHINGLES
  A kind of herpes which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain.
• SPILLET FISHING; SPILLIARD FISHING
  A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.
• PLANISHING
  a. & vb. n. from Planish, v. t. Planishing rolls , rolls between which metal strips are passed while cold, to bring them to exactly the required thickness.
• MOONSHINER
  A person engaged in illicit distilling; -- so called because the work is largely done at night.
• SEMICRYSTALLINE
  Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.
• BRATTISHING
  Carved openwork, as of a shrine, battlement, or parapet. (more info) 1. See Brattice, n.
• ASTONISHING
  Very wonderful; of a nature to excite astonishment; as, an astonishing event. Syn. -- Amazing; surprising; wonderful; marvelous. As*ton"ish*ing*ly, adv. -- As*ton"ish*ing*ness, n.
• BUSHINESS
  The condition or quality of being bushy.
• FLUSHING
  A surface formed of floating threads. (more info) 1. A heavy, coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy; -- commonly in the
• HYPOCRYSTALLINE
  Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass.
• MICROCRYSTALLINE
  Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline.
• EMBRIGHT
  To brighten.
• SWASHING
  1. Swaggering; hectoring. "A swashing and martial outside." Shak. 2. Resounding; crushing. "Swashing blow." Shak.
• AGLEAM
  Gleaming; as, faces agleam. Lowell.
• RAVISHING
  Rapturous; transporting.