Word Meanings - AURORAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Belonging to, or resembling, the aurora (the dawn or the northern lights); rosy. Her cheeks suffused with an auroral blush. Longfellow.
Related words: (words related to AURORAL)
- NORTHERNMOST
Farthest north. - NORTHERN
1. Of or pertaining to the north; being in the north, or nearer to that point than to the east or west. 2. In a direction toward the north; as, to steer a northern course; coming from the north; as, a northern wind. Northern diver. See Loon. -- - LIGHTSOME
1. Having light; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright. White walls make rooms more lightsome than black. Bacon. 2. Gay; airy; cheering; exhilarating. That lightsome affection of joy. Hooker. -- Light"some*ly, adv. -- Light"some*ness, n. Happiness - BLUSH
1. To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn. Milton. In the presence of the shameless - BLUSHLESS
Free from blushes; incapable of blushing; shameless; impudent. Vice now, secure, her blushless front shall raise. Dodsley. - AURORA
The Roman personification of the dawn of day; the goddess of the morning. The poets represented her a rising out of the ocean, in a chariot, with rosy fingers dropping gentle dew. (more info) 1. The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; - RESEMBLINGLY
So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness. - BELONG
attain to, to concern); pref. be- + longen to desire. See Long, v. Note: 1. To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain. 2. To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service. A desert place - BLUSHINGLY
In a blushing manner; with a blush or blushes; as, to answer or confess blushingly. - RESEMBLANT
Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower. - NORTHERNER
1. One born or living in the north. 2. A native or inhabitant of the Northern States; -- contradistinguished from Ant: Southerner. - SUFFUSION
A blending of one color into another; the spreading of one color over another, as on the feathers of birds. (more info) 1. The act or process of suffusing, or state of being suffused; an overspreading. To those that have the jaundice, - BELONGING
1. That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects. "Thyself and thy belongings." Shak. 2. That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance. 3. Family; relations; household. - BLUSHET
A modest girl. B. Jonson. - BLUSHER
One that blushes. - RESEMBLE
sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak. - AURORAL
Belonging to, or resembling, the aurora (the dawn or the northern lights); rosy. Her cheeks suffused with an auroral blush. Longfellow. - RESEMBLABLE
Admitting of being compared; like. Gower. - NORTHERNLY
Northerly. Hakewill. - LIGHTSTRUCK
Damaged by accidental exposure to light; light-fogged; -- said of plates or films. - COSTON LIGHTS
Signals made by burning lights of different colors and used by vessels at sea, and in the life-saving service; -- named after their inventor. - DELIGHTSOME
Very pleasing; delightful. "Delightsome vigor." Grew. Ye shall be a delightsome land, . . . saith the Lord. Mal. iii. 12. -- De*light"some*ly, adv. -- De*light"some*ness, n.