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LAMBENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lambent mean?
• LAMBENT (adjective)
The adjective LAMBENT has 1 sense:
1. softly bright or radiant
Familiarity information: LAMBENT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Softly bright or radiant
Synonyms:
aglow; lambent; lucent; luminous
Context example:
a sky luminous with stars
Similar:
bright (emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts)
Derivation:
lambency (an appearance of reflected light)
Context examples
At the slightest impact of the outside world upon his consciousness, his thoughts, sympathies, and emotions leapt and played like lambent flame.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
His wit is bright, his humour attractive, but both bear the same relation to his serious genius that the mere lambent sheet-lightning playing under the edge of the summer- cloud does to the electric death-spark hid in its womb.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Her knowledge of love was purely theoretical, and she conceived of it as lambent flame, gentle as the fall of dew or the ripple of quiet water, and cool as the velvet-dark of summer nights.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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