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Resplendent

//ɹɪˈsplɛn.dənt// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Shining brilliantly; gleaming; radiant.

    "The resplendent sun rose over the horizon."

  2. 2
    Shiny and colorful, and thus pleasing to the eye; splendid in appearance.

    "The peacock displayed its resplendent plumage."

  3. 3
    Magnificent; glorious; splendid; marked by extraordinary excellence or beauty. figuratively

    "The queen appeared in resplendent majesty."

  4. 4
    Exhibiting the property of resplendency in Peano arithmetic.
Adjective
  1. 1
    having great beauty and splendor wordnet

Etymology

From the obsolete sense of the English verb splendish (“to shine”), from Latin splendere (“to shine”), or from resplend + -ent, from Latin resplendere (“to shine back, glitter”).

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