Word Meanings - RESPLENDENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Shining with brilliant luster; very bright. -- Re*splen"dent*ly, adv. With royal arras and resplendent gold. Spenser. (more info) resplendere to shine brightly; pref. re- re- + splendere to shine.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RESPLENDENT)

• Lucid
• Shining
• bright
• resplendent
• Incident
• luminous
• clear
• trans parent
• crystalline
• pellucid
• distinct
• intelligible
• rational
• perspicuous
• orderly
• limpid
• lucent
• easily under
• stood
• Vivid
• Bright
• brilliant
• lustrous
• radiant
• graphic
• lively
• animated
• stirring
• striking
• glowing
• sunny
• scintillant

Related words: (words related to RESPLENDENT)

• UNDERDOER
  One who underdoes; a shirk.
• PARENTHETIC; PARENTHETICAL
  1. Of the nature of a parenthesis; pertaining to, or expressed in, or as in, a parenthesis; as, a parenthetical clause; a parenthetic remark. A parenthetical observation of Moses himself. Hales. 2. Using or containing parentheses.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• LIVELY
  1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier
• LUSTROUS
  Bright; shining; luminous. " Good sparks and lustrous." Shak. -- Lus"trous*ly, adv.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• UNDERPLOT
  1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison.
• PARENTHESIS
  One of the curved lines which inclose a parenthetic word or phrase. Note: Parenthesis, in technical grammar, is that part of a sentence which is inclosed within the recognized sign; but many phrases and sentences which are punctuated by commas
• UNDERNICENESS
  A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety.
• UNDERDOLVEN
  p. p. of Underdelve.
• UNDERSOIL
  The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
• SHINTIYAN; SHINTYAN
  A kind of wide loose drawers or trousers worn by women in Mohammedan countries.
• DISTINCTNESS
  1. The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things. The soul's . . . distinctness from the body. Cudworth. 2. Nice discrimination; hence, clearness; precision; as, he stated
• RATIONALIZATION
  The act or process of rationalizing.
• TRANSCEND
  1. To climb; to mount. 2. To be transcendent; to excel.
• UNDERPROP
  To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton.
• UNDERNIME
  1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman.
• TRANSMUTATIONIST
  One who believes in the transmutation of metals or of species.
• PARENTATION
  Something done or said in honor of the dead; obsequies. Abp. Potter.
• UNDERCREST
  To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
• SPILLET FISHING; SPILLIARD FISHING
  A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.
• DILUCIDATION
  The act of making clear. Boyle.
• PETROGRAPHIC; PETROGRAPHICAL
  Pertaining to petrography.
• STEREOGRAPHIC; STEREOGRAPHICAL
  Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth. Stereographic projection , a method of representing the sphere in which the center of projection is taken in the surface of the
• BRIGHT
  See I
• PENTAGRAPHIC; PENTAGRAPHICAL
  Pantographic. See Pantograph.
• PHOTOGRAPHIC; PHOTOGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to photography; obtained by photography; used ib photography; as a photographic picture; a photographic camera. -- Pho`to*graph"ic*al*ly, adv. Photographic printing, the process of obtaining pictures, as on chemically
• PLUNDERER
  One who plunders or pillages.