rutilant
Syllables: ru·til·ant/ˈɹuːtɪl(ə)nt//ˈɹutələnt/
rutilant adjective: shining or glowing with a red colour or light.
Adjective
rutilant (comparative more rutilant, superlative most rutilant)
- Shining or glowing with a red colour or light.
- [S]tately Hyperion or the lordly ſonne, the moſt rutilant planet of the ſeuẽ, in Lent when Heralius herring enters into his chiefe reign and ſcepterdome, ſkippeth and danſeth[,] the goats iumpe on the earth for ioy of his entrance.1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 36
- [T]he colour of a Comet ſignifies the Nature of the Ruling Planet. This was of a Fiery Red, but mixed with a dusky Silver colour, which made it look but dim in appearance, (unleſs in clear Nights before the Moon was up, for then it look'd more Rutilant:) and therefore it was likewiſe in this...a. 1682, George Wharton, “An Excellent Discourse of the Names, Genus, Species, Efficient and Final Causes of All Comets, &c.”, in John Gadbury, compiler, The Works of that Late Most Excellent...
- Synonyms:
- rutilous
rutilant meaning in Urdu
rutilant in Urdu
- چمکیلا
Examples of rutilant in a sentence
- Thy Candour, which the Opticks Quondam drew, / And o'er the Viſible Ideas rang'd, / Was by the Gore of that Lewd Goddeſs chang'd / To Rutilant Purpureous Sanguin Hue.1707, “The Life of Estevanillo Gonzales, the Pleasantest and Most Diverting of All Comical Scoundrels”, in [Andrés Pérez de León (or...
- Nitrous acid. #92;#123; It is nitric acid holding nitrous acid in solution, nearly absorbs its weight from it; then in a rutilant vapour more volatile than nitric acid.1813, “CHEMISTRY”, in John Mason Good, Olinthus Gregory, Newton Bosworth [et al.], editors, Pantologia. A New Cyclopædia, […], volumes III...
- She was now 16 and sending off her first radiations and vibrations dressed in Varda's own rutilant colors.1964, Anaïs Nin, Collages, Denver, Colo.: Alan Swallow, →OCLC:
- He had a round head as bare as a knee, a corpse's button nose, and very white, very limp, very damp hands adorned with rutilant gems.1969, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 11, in Ada, or, Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published...
Synonyms of rutilant
- rutilous
Forms of rutilant
| comparative | more rutilant |
|---|---|
| superlative | most rutilant |
Origin of rutilant
From Late Middle English rutilaunt (“shining with a gold or red colour”), from rutilāns (“reddening”), an adjective use of the present participle of rutilō (“to redden”) (from rutilus (“(yellowish) red”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”)). The English word is cognate with Italian rutilante, Portuguese rutilante, Spanish rutilante.
Words formed from rutilant
- rutilance
- rutilantly
Questions about rutilant
- What does rutilant mean?
- Rutilant means shining or glowing with a red colour or light.
- What is rutilant in Urdu?
- Rutilant in Urdu is چمکیلا. See Rutilant meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use rutilant in a sentence?
- Thy Candour, which the Opticks Quondam drew, / And o'er the Viſible Ideas rang'd, / Was by the Gore of that Lewd Goddeſs chang'd / To Rutilant Purpureous Sanguin Hue.
- What part of speech is rutilant?
- Rutilant is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce rutilant?
- Rutilant is pronounced /ˈɹuːtɪl(ə)nt/ (UK).
Words near rutilant in the dictionary
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