effulgent
4 synonyms and 1 antonym for effulgent, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Adj — Shining brightly and splendidly.
Synonyms
Less common
Still standard English, but they carry more weight.
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
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Etymology
Comes from Latin effulgēns (“flashing, glittering”), the present participle of effulgeō (“to shine or gleam forth, flash, glitter”), itself formed from ē- (a variant of the prefix ex-, meaning ‘out; away’) and fulgeō (“to flash, gleam, glisten, glitter, shine”), which goes back to Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“shiny; wh...
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