Lambent \Lam"bent\, a. [L. lambens, -enlis, p. pr. of lambere to
lick; akin to lap. See Lap to drink by licking.]
1. Playing on the surface; touching lightly; gliding over. "A
lambent flame." --Dryden. "A lambent style."
--Beaconsfield.
[1913 Webster]
2. Twinkling or gleaming; fickering. "The lambent purity of
the stars." --W. Irving.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
lambent
adj : softly bright or radiant; "a house aglow with lights";
"glowing embers"; "lambent tongues of flame"; "the
lucent moon"; "a sky luminous with stars" [syn: aglow(p),
glowing, lucent, luminous]
WordNet (r) 2.0
27 Moby Thesaurus words for "lambent":
aflicker, barely touching, beaming, bickering, blinking, brilliant,
dancing, effulgent, flashing, flickering, flickery, flicky,
fluttering, fluttery, incandescent, lucent, luminous, lustrous,
playing, playing lightly over, quivering, quivery, radiant,
refulgent, stroboscopic, wavering, wavery
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
aglow(p), glowing, lucent, luminous
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