Incandescent Synonyms and Antonyms

ĭnkən-dĕsənt
Giving off or reflecting light readily or in large amounts
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. bright
  2. brilliant
  3. radiant
  4. glowing
  5. luminous
  6. intense
  7. beamy
  8. aglow
  9. effulgent
  10. irradiant
  11. lambent
  12. candent
  13. lucent
  14. electric
  15. lustrous
  16. refulgent
  17. lucid
  18. shiny
  19. shining
Antonyms:
  1. dark
  2. dim
Shining brilliantly; very bright.
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. bright

Words Related to Incandescent

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. light
  2. ultra-bright
  3. oxyhydrogen

Incandescent Sentence Examples

  • When heated in dry oxygen it becomes incandescent, forming magnesia.

  • Wehnelt discovered that the same effect could be produced by using instead of a carbon filament a platinum wire covered with the oxides of calcium or barium, which when incandescent have the property of copiously emitting negative ions.

  • Practically the first of these furnaces was that of Despretz, in which the mixture to be heated was placed in a carbon tube rendered incandescent by the passage of a current through its substance from end to end.

  • It belongs to the group of metals whose oxides are generally denominated "rare earths," and its history is bound up in the history of the group, which is especially interesting from the fact that it supplies the material for the manufacture of the mantles used in incandescent gaslighting, and also that the radio-active substances are almost invariably associated with these oxides.

  • Cyanogen and its compounds, so far as we know, arise only in a state of incandescent heat.

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