Pronunciation: [ê-'fêl-jênt ]
Definition: Shining brilliantly, resplendent, emitting a brilliant light.
Usage: Today's adjective comes from the verb, effulge "to shine brightly, blindingly." The adverb from the adjective is "effulgently" and the noun is "effulgence." This is the word to use when neither "bright" nor "brilliant" says it all, so use it sparingly and surgically.
Suggested Usage: Today's adjective refers to objects that are brighter than bright, "Les Braine thinks every effulgent object he sees in the sky is a UFO." This sense sometimes slips over to refer to resplendence, "Grace Fuller made an effulgent entrance at the cotillion, draped in a sequin-coated gown held down by every bauble she had ever bought or filched." It can move even further into abstraction: "Einstein's mind was a constant source of effulgent ideas."
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