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scintillescent

/ˌsɪntɪˈlɛsənt/

scintillescent adjective: scintillating feebly.

Adjective

scintillescent (comparative more scintillescent, superlative most scintillescent)

  1. scintillating feebly
    • […] And poised herself loose in mid-heaven, with one pale, / Minute, scintillescent, and tremulous star / Swinging under her globe like a wizard-lit car […]1860, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, Lucile
    • They walked the forest path through geometries of sieved and scintillescent light. A bird called above, and Baru, remembering old habit, thinking of Taranoke, made a note in her census: one hawk.2015 September 15, Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Tor Books, page 327

Forms of scintillescent

comparativemore scintillescent
superlativemost scintillescent

Questions about scintillescent

What does scintillescent mean?
Scintillescent means scintillating feebly.
What part of speech is scintillescent?
Scintillescent is an adjective.
How do you pronounce scintillescent?
Scintillescent is pronounced /ˌsɪntɪˈlɛsənt/.

Words near scintillescent in the dictionary

  1. scintillation vials
  2. scintillations
  3. scintillator
  4. scintillators
  5. scintillescence
  6. scintillescent
  7. scintillite
  8. scintillites
  9. scintillize
  10. scintillized
  11. scintillizes

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