incandescent
UK/ˌɪn.kænˈdɛs.ənt/US/ˌɪn.kænˈdɛs.ənt/
incandescent adjective: emitting light as a result of being heated.
Adjective
incandescent (comparative more incandescent, superlative most incandescent)
- Emitting light as a result of being heated.
- We will all go together when we go / All suffused with an incandescent glow1959, Tom Lehrer, “We Will All Go Together When We Go”
- Rather than burning out as incandescent bulbs do, L.E.D.’s light output dims over tens of thousands of hours. L.E.D.’s are also more resistant to vibration than incandescents or screw-in fluorescent bulbs, and do not flicker or hum.2007 March 1, Matthew L. Wald, “Room to Improve”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2017
- Shining very brightly.
- Those multitoned buttes and mesas [of the Grand Canyon], and that incandescent sequence of colorful bands that make one of the natural wonders of the world so grand, can also be found over 100 million miles away [on Mars].2013 November 27, John Grotzinger, “The world of Mars [print version: International Herald Tribune Magazine, 2013, p. 36]”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 02 Nov 2017
- Showing intense emotion, as of a performance, etc.
- The incandescent performance enraptured the audience.
- Extremely angry; furious.
- She is incandescent with rage because someone stole her wallet.
Noun
incandescent (plural incandescents)
incandescent meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
incandescent in Hindi
- तापदीप्त
incandescent in Tamil
- வெண்சுடாநிலை, வெப்பத்தால் ஒளிவிடும், வௌளொளிர்வுள்ள, கனலொளிர்
incandescent in Urdu
- تاپدیپت
incandescent in Bengali
- তীব্র উজ্জ্বল, প্রদীপ্ত
More languagesFewer languages
- incandescent in Malayalam
- എരിയുന്ന, എരിഞ്ഞുകാണ്ടിരിക്കുന്ന, ചൂടുകൊണ്ടു പഴുത്ത, ധവളോജ്വലമായ
- incandescent in Kannada
- ಉಜ್ವಲವಾದ, ಪ್ರಜ್ವಲಿಸುವ, ಬೆಳಗುವ, ಪ್ರಕಾಶಮಾನ
- incandescent in Tagalog
- nagbabaga
Examples of incandescent in a sentence
- The incandescent light bulb is on its way out.
- This is a curious book about far more "curious and uncommon books"; kruptadia, forbidden erotic literature "of an incandescent kind".
- Elderflowers glow like incandescent seafoam in the darkness.
Forms of incandescent
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more incandescent |
| superlative | most incandescent |
| Noun | |
| plural | incandescents |
Origin of incandescent
Borrowed from French incandescent, from Latin incandescens, from incandesco (“be heated, glow”), from in- (intensifying prefix) + candesco (“become white”), from candidus (“white”).
Words formed from incandescent
Phrases with incandescent
Words that rhyme with incandescent
- crescent
- evanescent
- deliquescent
- fluorescent
- efflorescent
- quiescent
- senescent
- accrescent
- acquiescent
- arborescent
- circumcrescent
- convalescent
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- depressant
- effervescent
- erubescent
- excrescent
- iridescent
- juvenescent
- lapidescent
- pubescent
- recrudescent
- reflorescent
- spinescent
- tumescent
- virescent
- viridescent
- acaulescent
- adipescent
- adularescent
- adultescent
- adultolescent
- agonescent
- albescent
- alcalescent
- alkalescent
- antidepressant
- autofluorescent
- autoluminescent
- biofluorescent
- bioluminescent
- calescent
- candescent
- cathodoluminescent
- caulescent
- cerulescent
- cessant
- chemifluorescent
- chemiluminescent
- chemoluminescent
- cinerescent
- coalescent
- concrescent
- contabescent
- crystalloluminescent
- cytofluorescent
- decadescent
- decalescent
- defervescent
- delitescent
- detumescent
Questions about incandescent
- What does incandescent mean?
- Incandescent means emitting light as a result of being heated.
- What is incandescent in Hindi?
- Incandescent in Hindi is तापदीप्त. See Incandescent meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is incandescent?
- Incandescent can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce incandescent?
- Incandescent is pronounced /ˌɪn.kænˈdɛs.ənt/ (UK).
Words near incandescent in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: incandescent (page history and authors); incandescent (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); incandescent (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); incandescent (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); incandescent (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); incandescent (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); incandescent (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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