![]() Phosphorescent: continuing to glow after removal of a light sourceĢ9. Opaque: blocking light also, obtuse, or difficult to understandĢ8. Lustrous: smooth, evenly lit also, brilliant or eminentĢ5. Luminescent: shining by chemical or physiological meansĢ4. Lucifugal: shunning light, as in the case of nocturnal animalsĢ2. ![]() ![]() Lucid: see lucent also, easy to understandĢ0. Illuminating: bright or shining also, highlighted or made clearġ9. Glossy: bright on the surface also, artificially opulent or sophisticatedġ5. Glittering: flashing or sparkling also brilliantly and/or superficially attractive or appealingġ4. Glinting: see gleaming also, appearing briefly, or glancing brieflyġ3. Glimmering: faintly or unsteadily shiningġ0. Glancing: intermittently flashing or gleamingĩ. Fluorescent: giving off light produced by another source of illuminationħ. Dappled: marked by spotted or patchy light also, marks of this kind on a surfaceĦ. Crepuscular: dim, or resembling twilight also, said of animals active during twilightĥ. ![]() Coruscating: flashing, or sparkling also, brilliant or showyĤ. Blinding: so bright as to obscure visionģ. Aureate: brilliantly golden also, grandiloquentĢ. Quite a few of them, from lucent to lustrous (and even illuminating), stem from the Latin word lucere, meaning “to shine,” while many others begin with the consonant gl-, betraying their descent from a proto-Germanic word with the same meaning.ġ. 36 Adjectives Describing Light By Mark NicholĪ bright constellation of adjectives referring to various qualities of light, or other phenomena related to light, is brought to light in the list below. ![]()
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