Incandescent

Adjective

 * 1) emitting light as a result of being heated
 * 2) shining very brightly
 * 3) showing intense emotion, as of a performance etc.

Related terms

 * incandescence
 * incandescently

Derived terms

 * incandescent lamp

Noun

 * 1) An incandescent lamp or bulb

Thesaurus
ablaze, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, ardent, beaming, beamy, blazing, blushing, bright, bright and sunny, brilliant, burning, candent, candescent, comburent, conflagrant, effulgent, fiery, flagrant, flaming, flaring, flickering, flushing, fulgent, fuming, gleaming, gleamy, glinting, glowing, guttering, ignescent, ignited, illuminant, in a blaze, in a glow, in flames, inflamed, irradiative, kindled, lambent, lamping, light as day, live, living, lucent, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative, luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lustrous, on fire, orient, radiant, red-hot, reeking, refulgent, rutilant, rutilous, scintillant, scintillating, shining, shiny, smoking, smoldering, sparking, starbright, starlike, starry, streaming, suffused, sunny, sunshiny, unextinguished, unquenched, white-hot

Etymology
From incandescens: < incandesco: < in-: + candesco: < candidus:.

Adjective

 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Greek: πυρακτωμένος


 * Italian:
 * Russian: накалённый добела
 * Spanish: ,


 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,


 * Italian:
 * Russian: светящийся, сияющий
 * Spanish: reluciente, ,


 * Finnish:
 * French: resplendissant,,  ,


 * Italian:
 * Russian: пылкий,
 * Spanish: resplandesciente, rebosante

Adjective

 * 1) incandescent
 * Lorsque cette masse incandescente sortit des entrailles de la terre, elle se trouva entourée d'eau et se refroidit rapidement. (Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau, L'Archipel de Chausey, souvenirs d'un Naturaliste, Revue des Deux Mondes, tome 30, 1842)

Related terms

 * incandescence

Etymology
From incandescens: < incandesco: < in-: + candesco: < candidus:.