relucent
adjective
re·lu·cent ri-ˈlü-sᵊnt 
: reflecting light : shining
Word History
Etymology
Latin relucent-, relucens, past participle of relucēre to shine back, from re- + lucēre to shine — more at light
First Known Use
15th century, in the meaning defined above
relucent
adjective
as in shining
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- shining
- incandescent
- sparkling
- resplendent
- lambent
- radiant
- lucent
- beaming
- light
- glowing
- glaring
- alight
- lit
- effulgent
- ablaze
- illuminated
- aglitter
- luminous
- brightened
- beamy
- lightsome
- lighted
- brilliant
- agleam
- lucid
- floodlighted
- shiny
- illumined
- glossy
- ultrabright
- highlighted
- bright
- lustrous
- spotlighted
- floodlit
- sunlit
- moonlit
- starlit
- spotlit
- moony
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- black
- dusky
- dark
- obscure
- dusk
- darkened
- unlit
- dim
- sombre
- gloomy
- somber
- tenebrific
- stygian
- obscured
- dimmed
- darkling
- darkish
- lightless
- darksome
- caliginous
- murky
- pitchy
- tenebrous
- rayless
- twilit
- crepuscular
- pitch-dark
- pitch-black
- moonless
- starless
- sunless
- clingstones
- clingy
- clinic
- clinical
- clinical clerk
- clinical depression
- clinical psychologist
- clinical psychologists
- clinical psychology
- clinical thermometer
- clinical trial
- clinically
- clinically depressed
- clinician
- clinicians
- clinico-
- clinicopathologic
- clinicopathological
- clinicopathologically
- clinics
- Clinidae
- clinidaes
- clinides
- clinids
- clink