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RESPLENDENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does resplendent mean?
• RESPLENDENT (adjective)
The adjective RESPLENDENT has 1 sense:
1. having great beauty and splendor
Familiarity information: RESPLENDENT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having great beauty and splendor
Synonyms:
glorious; resplendent; splendid; splendiferous
Context example:
a kind of splendiferous native simplicity
Similar:
beautiful (delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration)
Derivation:
resplend (be resplendent or radiant; to shine brightly)
resplendence; resplendency (brilliant radiant beauty)
Context examples
The hall, too, was scoured; and the great carved clock, as well as the steps and banisters of the staircase, were polished to the brightness of glass; in the dining-room, the sideboard flashed resplendent with plate; in the drawing-room and boudoir, vases of exotics bloomed on all sides.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The famous Master of the Ring was clad in honour of the occasion in a most resplendent scarlet coat worked in gold at the buttonholes, a white stock, a looped hat with a broad black band, buff knee-breeches, white silk stockings, and paste buckles—a costume which did justice to his magnificent figure, and especially to those famous balustrade calves which had helped him to be the finest runner and jumper as well as the most formidable pugilist in England.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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