Synonyms and Antonyms of incandescent
1
giving off or reflecting much light
- sitting in darkness, except for the incandescent coals of our campfire
beaming, bedazzling, bright, brilliant, candescent, clear, dazzling, effulgent, fulgent, glowing, lambent, lucent, lucid, luminous, lustrous, radiant, refulgent, sheeny, shining, shiny, splendid
ablaze, ardent, blazing, burning, combusting, fiery, flaming, red-hot
agleam, aglitter, blinding, coruscant, flaring, flashing, flickering, gemmy, glancing, glaring, gleaming, glimmering, glinting, glistening, glistering, glittering, scintillant, scintillating, shimmering, shimmery, sparkling, sunny, twinkling, winking
burnished, polished, shined
superbright, ultrabright
blackened, dark, darkened, darkish, darkling, darksome, dimmed, dusky, gloomy, lightless, murky, obscure, obscured, pitch-black, pitch-dark, somber (or sombre), sunless, tenebrous, unlit
cloudy, shadowlike, shadowy, shady
gray (also grey), leaden, pale, palish
2
having or expressing great depth of feeling
- a speaker incandescent with righteous anger over the treatment of the refugees
ardent, blazing, burning, charged, demonstrative, emotional, fervent, fervid, feverish, fiery, flaming, glowing, hot-blooded, impassioned, intense, passional, passionate, perfervid, red-hot, religious, superheated, torrid, vehement, warm, warm-blooded
gushing, gushy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, saccharine, sappy, schmaltzy, sentimental, sloppy, sugary
histrionic, melodramatic
enthusiastic, gung ho, keen, zealous
enamored, infatuated, obsessed
uninhibited, unreserved, unrestrained
frenzied, orgiastic, overemotional, overexcited, overheated
