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单词 refulgent
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Definition of refulgent in English:

refulgent

adjective rɪˈfʌldʒ(ə)ntrəˈfəldʒənt
literary
  • Shining very brightly.

    refulgent blue eyes
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's vivid, refulgent work from set designer David Rockwell and lighting designer Kenneth Posner, and a perfect introduction to a charging score by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman that starts out bold and grabby and never lets up.
    • I stepped outside under a refulgent sky, and I saw a tiny yellow-brown bird fly over the house into an oak.
    • In this refulgent summer, it has been a luxury to draw the breath of life. The grass grows, the buds burst, the meadow is spotted with fire and gold in the tint of flowers.
    • For lovers of forgotten Romantic symphonies, this is a treat, even if the interpretations could have been a bit more joyous and the orchestral playing more refulgent.
    • One halo is refulgent, another radiates smoke or vapors, and a third appears to have been sprung from its perfectly circular tension so that it looks like a snake, a broken rubber band, a garden hose.
    Synonyms
    shining, light, brilliant, vivid, blazing, dazzling, beaming, intense, glaring

Derivatives

  • refulgence

  • noun rɪˈfʌldʒ(ə)nsrəˈfəldʒ(ə)ns
    literary
    • She could feel the entire theater's eyes on her; she knew that every one of those beginning theatre students was jealous of her talent, her energy, her grace, her pure refulgence onstage.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The performances can be a little hoarse - a certain tonal refulgence is lacking here - but they don't get in the way of the music.
      • From any one point in the gallery, you could only see clearly the few photos right before you, while the rest spread out into the distance with a refulgence worthy of stained glass in cathedrals.
      • Seen in reproduction, it is hard to conceive of the monumentality and refulgence that the grandest of them possess in the flesh.
      • Against a sky of blackness, where pride is abundant and magnanimity scarce, that little man, that mediocre personage, shines with uncommon refulgence.
  • refulgently

  • adverb
    literary
    • Among the extroverts, Oscar Wilde is refulgently here, of course, along with Dr Johnson, much Hazlitt and the two Samuel Butlers.

Origin

Late 15th century: from Latin refulgent- 'shining out', from the verb refulgere, from re- (expressing intensive force) + fulgere 'to shine'.

 
 

Definition of refulgent in US English:

refulgent

adjectiverəˈfəldʒəntrəˈfəljənt
literary
  • Shining brightly.

    refulgent blue eyes
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In this refulgent summer, it has been a luxury to draw the breath of life. The grass grows, the buds burst, the meadow is spotted with fire and gold in the tint of flowers.
    • It's vivid, refulgent work from set designer David Rockwell and lighting designer Kenneth Posner, and a perfect introduction to a charging score by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman that starts out bold and grabby and never lets up.
    • One halo is refulgent, another radiates smoke or vapors, and a third appears to have been sprung from its perfectly circular tension so that it looks like a snake, a broken rubber band, a garden hose.
    • I stepped outside under a refulgent sky, and I saw a tiny yellow-brown bird fly over the house into an oak.
    • For lovers of forgotten Romantic symphonies, this is a treat, even if the interpretations could have been a bit more joyous and the orchestral playing more refulgent.
    Synonyms
    shining, light, brilliant, vivid, blazing, dazzling, beaming, intense, glaring

Origin

Late 15th century: from Latin refulgent- ‘shining out’, from the verb refulgere, from re- (expressing intensive force) + fulgere ‘to shine’.

 
 
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