Resplendent

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Resplendent \Re*splen"dent\ (-dent), a. [L. resplendens, -entis,
     p. pr. of resplendere to shine brightly; pref. re- re- +
     splendere to shine. See {Splendid}.]
     Shining with brilliant luster; very bright. --
     {Re*splen"dent*ly}, adv.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           With royal arras and resplendent gold.   --Spenser.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  resplendent
       adj 1: having great beauty and splendor; "a glorious spring
              morning"; "a glorious sunset"; "splendid costumes"; "a
              kind of splendiferous native simplicity" [syn: {glorious},
               {splendid}, {splendiferous}]
       2: richly and brilliantly colorful [syn: {flamboyant}, {unrestrained}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  47 Moby Thesaurus words for "resplendent":
     beaming, bedazzling, blazing, blinding, blooming, bright,
     bright and shining, brilliant, charismatic, dazzling, devastating,
     divine, effulgent, flamboyant, flaming, fulgent, fulgid, garish,
     glamorous, glaring, glary, glorious, glowing, gorgeous, heavenly,
     illustrious, killing, lustrous, magic, magnificent, numinous,
     proud, radiant, raving, ravishing, refulgent, shining, sparkling,
     splendent, splendid, splendiferous, splendorous, splendrous,
     stunning, sublime, superb, vivid
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  RESPLENDENT, adj.  Like a simple American citizen beduking himself in
  his lodge, or affirming his consequence in the Scheme of Things as an
  elemental unit of a parade.
  
          The Knights of Dominion were so resplendent in their velvet-
      and-gold that their masters would hardly have known them.
                                             "Chronicles of the Classes"