different between lustrous vs resplendent
lustrous
English
Etymology
lustre +? -ous
Adjective
lustrous (comparative more lustrous, superlative most lustrous)
- Having a glow or lustre.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act IV, Scene 2, [1]
- Why it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes, and the clearstores toward the south north are as lustrous as ebony; and yet complainest thou of obstruction?
- 1892, Walt Whitman, "Gods" in Leaves of Grass (abridged reprint of the 1892 edition), New York: The Modern Library, 1921, p. 232, [2]
- Or Time and Space,
- Or shape of Earth divine and wondrous,
- Or some fair shape I viewing, worship,
- Or lustrous orb of sun or star by night,
- Be ye my Gods.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 1,[3]
- It was a hot noon in July; and his face, lustrous with perspiration, beamed with barbaric good humor.
- 1936, Wallace Stevens, "Meditation Celestial & Terrestrial" in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971, p. 123,
- The wild warblers are warbling in the jungle
- Of life and spring and of the lustrous inundations,
- Flood on flood, of our returning sun.
- 2000, Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass, Random House Children's Books, 2001, Chapter 1,[4]
- The sunlight lay heavy and rich on his lustrous golden fur, and his monkey hands turned a pine cone this way and that, snapping off the scales with sharp fingers and scratching out the sweet nuts.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act IV, Scene 2, [1]
- As if shining with a brilliant light; radiant.
Translations
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resplendent
English
Alternative forms
- resplendant (obsolete)
Etymology
From the obsolete sense of the English verb splendish (“to shine”), from Latin splendere (“to shine”), or from resplend +? -ent, from Latin resplendere.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /???spl?n.d?nt/
Adjective
resplendent (comparative more resplendent, superlative most resplendent)
- Shiny and colourful, and thus pleasing to the eye.
- (mathematics) Exhibiting the property of resplendency in Peano arithmetic.
Related terms
- resplend
- splendid
- splendor
Translations
See also
- resplendid (misspelling)
Latin
Verb
resplendent
- third-person plural present active indicative of resplende?
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