This week’s theme
Adjectives

This week’s words
alible
fulgurant
anfractuous
heliotropic
antelucan

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(FUHL/FULL-guh-ruhnt)

MEANING:

adjective:
1. Flashing like lightning.
2. Brilliant.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin fulgurate (to flash), from fulgor (brightness), from fulgere (to shine). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhel- (to shine or burn), which also gave us blaze, blank, blond, bleach, blanket, flame, refulgent , fulminate, and effulgent. Earliest documented use: 1611.

USAGE:

“The darkened kitchen, fulgurant with lightning beyond a rain-streaked window.”
Dale Bailey; Cockroach; Fantasy & Science Fiction (Hoboken, New Jersey); Dec 1998.

“It was a beautiful spring day in Smyrna, Georgia, full of blooming Bradford pears and dogwood and other trees and shrubs that I couldn’t name, blasting with the fulgurant petals of May.”
Doug Crandell; Back Story; Smithsonian (Washington, DC); May 2004.

See more usage examples of fulgurant in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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