Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Shining brilliantly; radiant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Shining; very bright; dazzling.
- In heraldry, having rays, as a star or sun.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Exquisitely bright; shining; dazzling; effulgent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Shining brilliantly ;radiant .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective shining intensely
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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These from the scabrous canvas of fulgent wastrels and transcendental madmen.
Vacuum City 2010
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He told of the wilting heat, the fulgent landscape, the people.
Ain't Comin' Back 2010
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In contrast, a pedant is a supercilious show-off who drops references to Sophocles and masks his shallowness by using words like “fulgent” and “supercilious.”
Amen to intellectualism! WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2008
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OK I've been known to drop ambivalent, but I have never said fulgent or supercilious!
Amen to intellectualism! WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2008
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In contrast, a pedant is a supercilious show-off who drops references to Sophocles and masks his shallowness by using words like “fulgent” and “supercilious.”
Archive 2008-11-01 WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2008
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OK I've been known to drop ambivalent, but I have never said fulgent or supercilious!
Archive 2008-11-01 WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2008
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Uncharacteristically, he summoned his imagination instead, painting an ecstatic vision of the village under a fulgent canopy of stars and a crescent moon.
Van Gogh's Transcendent Vision Mary Tompkins Lewis 2008
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Dum vaga passim sidera fulgent, numerat longas tetricus horas, et sollicito nixus cubito suspirando viscera rumpit.
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In her good - tempered moments, is it not as full of lazy softness as in her brief fits of anger it is fulgent with quick-flashing fire?
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The world had lost all form and definition; solid color without shadow or shape spilled across the landscape in two hues: blue, rich, vibrant, startling blue sky unbroken by a single wisp of cloud; and white, blinding white snow reflecting a fulgent late morning sun.
The Mammoth Hunters Auel, Jean M. 1985
chained_bear commented on the word fulgent
"More recently, we’ve had some smart and well-educated presidents who scrambled to hide it. Richard Nixon was a self-loathing intellectual, and Bill Clinton camouflaged a fulgent brain behind folksy Arkansas aphorisms about hogs." (Nicholas Kristof, New York Times, Nov. 9, 2008)
November 11, 2008
duckbill commented on the word fulgent
"But still the magic volume holds
The Raptur'd eye in realms apart
And fulgent sorcery enfolds
The willing mind and eager heart."
- H. P. Lovecraft
March 1, 2011
qms commented on the word fulgent
Most people think Ernest a dull gent
Hi mom though is much more indulgent.
To her he’s aglow,
The star of the show,
A man who is modest yet fulgent.
Find out more about Ernest Bafflewit
December 6, 2017
bilby commented on the word fulgent
About time Ernest joined Wordnik I reckon.
December 6, 2017
qms commented on the word fulgent
He is quite a self-effacing fellow, but I will confer with him.
December 6, 2017