effulgent
/ɪˈfʌldʒ(ə)nt
/adjective literary
1Shining brightly; radiant.Even in this instance, it shined through like the effulgent, yet blinding sun, eminently spreading the glow into the unsuspecting eyes of a person not protected by the shade of the trees....
- In the night sky, nothing is brighter and more effulgent than the moon.
- He who meditates becomes united with the effulgent Sun.
1.1(Of a person or their expression) emanating joy or goodness: standing there was my father with the most effulgent smile on his face...
- He inhabits one of those effulgent personalities that transcends whatever it is he is supposed to be doing, along with an ebullient fan base and a well-promoted ordinary blokiness that charms men and mums alike.
- When I succeeded Archbishop Tutu many questions were being asked as to how this relatively unknown young man was going to fill the shoes of such an effulgent personality.
- People used to explain me as an effulgent person.
Derivatives
effulgence
/ noun ...- It is not surprising that the majority of authors represented here experienced some form of exile during their lives, a radical disruption from the norm that allowed the effulgence of the black light to illuminate their work.
- There was also light, an effulgence of light reverberating through every aspect of my being.
- Her body seemed smaller in the sudden effulgence.
effulgently
- Much of this is highly entertaining, and the anachronistic one-liners are sometimes wonderful, sometimes effulgently absurd.
- The Lord shines effulgently in the universe, so also the universe shines in the Lord.
- As I told you in the beginning, God shines effulgently in the universe.
Origin
Mid 18th century (earlier (mid 17th century) as effulgence): from Latin effulgent- 'shining brightly', from the verb effulgere, from ex- 'out' + fulgere 'to shine'.
Rhymes
- pledgeable
- pledge card
- pledge drive
- pledgee
- pledgeless
- Pledge of Allegiance
- pledge one's troth
- pledge (or plight) one's troth
- pledger
- pledget
- pledge week
- pledgor
- pleep
- -plegia
- -plegic
- pleiad
- Pleiades
- plein-air
- plein-airism
- plein air-ism
- plein-airisme
- plein-airist
- plein-airiste
- plein jeu
- pleiochasial