candescent

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Adjective
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective candescent has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

candescenta. [L. candescens, -entis, p. pr. of candescere, v. incho. fr. candere to shine.].
     Glowing; luminous; incandescent.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

candescent, adj. glowing with or as with white heat.

Derivative
candescence n.
Etymology
L candere be white

THESAURUS

candescent

ablaze, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, ardent, beaming, beamy, blazing, blushing, bright and sunny, burning, candent, comburent, conflagrant, flagrant, flaming, flaring, flickering, flushing, fuming, gleaming, gleamy, glinting, glowing, guttering, ignescent, ignited, illuminant, in a blaze, in a glow, in flames, incandescent, inflamed, irradiative, kindled, lamping, light as day, live, living, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative, luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lustrous, on fire, orient, radiant, reeking, rutilant, rutilous, scintillant, scintillating, shining, shiny, smoking, smoldering, sparking, starbright, starlike, starry, streaming, suffused, sunny, sunshiny, unextinguished, unquenched

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