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(ɪnkændesənt)
1. adjective
Incandescent substances or devices give out a lot of light when heated.
[technical]
...incandescent gases.
...incandescent light bulbs.
Synonyms: glowing, brilliant, shining, red-hot More Synonyms of incandescent
2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
If you describe someone or something as incandescent, you mean that they are very lively and impressive.
[literary]
Gill had an extraordinary, incandescent personality.
...an incandescent performance from Jessye Norman.
incandescence uncountable noun
She burned with an incandescence that had nothing to do with her looks.
3. adjective
If you say that someone is incandescent with rage, you mean that they are extremely angry.
[literary]
It makes me incandescent with fury. [+ with]
Synonyms: furious, angry, mad [informal], raging More Synonyms of incandescent

incandescent in British English

(ˌɪnkænˈdɛsənt)
adjective
1. 
emitting light as a result of being heated to a high temperature; red-hot or white-hot
2.  informal
extremely angry; raging
Derived forms
incandescently (ˌincanˈdescently)
adverb
Word origin
C18: from Latin incandescere to become hot, glow, from in-2 + candescere to grow bright, from candēre to be white; see candid

incandescent in American English

(ˌɪnkənˈdɛsənt)
adjective
1. 
glowing with intense heat; red-hot or, esp., white-hot
2. 
very bright; shining brilliantly; gleaming
Derived forms
incandescence (ˌincanˈdescence)
noun
incandescently (ˌincanˈdescently)
adverb
Word origin
L incandescens, prp. of incandescere: see in-1 & candescent

Examples of 'incandescent' in a sentence
incandescent

Cliff is incandescent with rage.
The Sun (2016)
Mum was absolutely incandescent with rage at my treachery.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
He was incandescent with rage as he read the riot act to us in his office.
Frankie Dettori with Jonathan Powell FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori (2004)
The cheapest way to save electricity is to swap your incandescent bulbs for compact fluorescent ones.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
This was an incandescent performance of real beauty and power.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
His incandescent fury was perhaps his finest hour.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
And that made him incandescent with fury.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It makes me incandescent with rage.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
These are typically more expensive but are said to last longer and the light quality is almost as good as incandescent bulbs.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Not surprisingly, the buyer was incandescent with rage.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The phasing out of incandescent bulbs has sparked a boom in Led lighting design.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
In the case of incandescent light bulbs, the position is entirely the opposite of that perception.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
His first idea was to replace the incandescent light bulbs with more modern energy-efficient bulbs.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
They are called incandescent lights, and their colour depends on how hot they are.
Freeman, Michael Photographers Handbook (1993)
At this point the oxygen was added, and the mixed gases gave an incandescent light.
Judith Flanders Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain (2006)
These are to be replaced by compact fluorescent light bulbs, a fact that has rendered much of the lighting industry incandescent with rage.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
I am incandescent with rage that such appalling suffering is being inflicted here in Britain.
The Sun (2014)
The quality and brightness of the light is improving all the time, and the best ones are now indistinguishable from the old incandescent bulbs.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
I got off it and he was incandescent with rage, much of which was to impress the owners.
The Sun (2013)
The fans, not surprisingly, were incandescent with rage.
John Foot Calcio: A History of Italian Football (2006)
Some cheered, but others were incandescent with rage and most of the comment centred on Rivera.
John Foot Calcio: A History of Italian Football (2006)
LEDs use at least 80% less power than incandescent light bulbs and last 50 times longer.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
He seemed to belong to a past which was already becoming remote, a past without the incandescent electric light, and without the photograph.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
1 (adjective) 
Definition
glowing with heat
incandescent light bulbs
Synonyms
glowing
stained glass in rich, glowing colours
brilliant
The event was held in brilliant sunshine.
shining
shining brass buttons
red-hot
radiant
Out on the bay the morning is radiant.
luminous
The luminous dial on the clock showed five minutes to seven.
white-hot
Day-Glo
phosphorescent
2 (adjective) 
It makes me incandescent with fury.
Synonyms
furious
He is furious at the way he has been treated.
angry
an angry rant
mad (informal)
I'm pretty mad about it, I can tell you.
raging
Inside, she was raging.
boiling
She was boiling with rage.
fuming
He was still fuming over the remark.
choked
pissed (British, Australian, New Zealand, slang)
Why is she so pissed at you?
infuriated
She realized how infuriated this would make me.
incensed
She was incensed at his lack of compassion.
enraged
The enraged crowd marched through the streets.
maddened
pissed off (taboo, slang)
livid (informal)
I am absolutely livid about it.
up in arms
on the warpath (informal)
foaming at the mouth
wrathful
He feared his stern and wrathful father.
in high dudgeon
fit to be tied (slang)
beside yourself
tooshie (Australian, slang)
off the air (Australian, slang)

Additional synonyms

in the sense of angry
Definition
feeling or expressing annoyance or rage
an angry rant
Synonyms
furious,
cross,
heated,
mad (informal),
raging,
provoked,
outraged,
annoyed,
passionate,
irritated,
raving,
hacked (off) (US, slang),
choked,
pissed (taboo, slang),
infuriated,
hot,
incensed,
enraged,
ranting,
exasperated,
irritable,
resentful,
nettled,
snappy,
indignant,
pissed off (taboo, slang),
irate,
tumultuous,
displeased,
uptight (informal),
riled,
up in arms,
incandescent,
ill-tempered,
irascible,
antagonized,
waspish,
piqued,
hot under the collar (informal),
on the warpath,
hopping mad (informal),
foaming at the mouth,
choleric,
splenetic,
wrathful,
at daggers drawn,
in high dudgeon,
as black as thunder,
ireful,
fit to be tied (slang),
tooshie (Australian, slang),
off the air (Australian, slang),
aerated
in the sense of boiling
She was boiling with rage.
Synonyms
furious,
angry,
fuming,
choked,
infuriated,
incensed,
enraged,
indignant,
incandescent,
on the warpath,
foaming at the mouth,
fit to be tied (slang),
tooshie (Australian, slang),
off the air (Australian, slang)
in the sense of brilliant
Definition
shining with light
The event was held in brilliant sunshine.
Synonyms
bright,
shining,
intense,
sparkling,
glittering,
dazzling,
vivid,
radiant,
luminous,
ablaze,
resplendent,
scintillating,
lustrous,
coruscating,
refulgent (literary),
lambent

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incandescent

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