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   in·can·des·cent

   /ˌinkənˈdes(ə)nt/

   adjective

   • 1. emitting light as a result of being heated: "plumes of incandescent liquid rock" Similar white-hotintensely hotred-hotburningfieryon fireblazingablazeaflameglowingaglowradiantbrightbrilliantdazzlingshiningluminousgleaminginformal:glowyliterary:fervidardentrutilantlucentcandescentarchaic:fervent
   • ▪ (of an electric light) containing a filament which glows white-hot when heated by a current passed through it: "an incandescent lamp"
   • 2. full of strong emotion; passionate: "Mravinsky's incandescent performance of Siegfried's Funeral March"
   • ▪ extremely angry: "she was incandescent at the way the IRS acted" Similar furiousenragedragingvery angryincensedseethinginfuriatedfumingboilinginflamediratewrathfulin a temperbeside oneselfin high dudgeonindignantoutragedinformal:lividhot under the collarup in armsfoaming at the mouthmadhopping madwildapoplecticriledaeratedon the warpathsteamed upin a latherfit to be tiedup the wallas cross as two sticksin a paddybent out of shapesoreheadedropeablesnakycrookvexinformal, dated:in a bateliterary:irefulwrothOpposite calm

   Word Origin late 18th century: from French, from Latin incandescent- ‘glowing’, from the verb incandescere, from in- (expressing intensive force) + candescere ‘become white’ (from candidus ‘white’).

   Derivatives

   • 1. incandescence noun
   • 2. incandescently adverb

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