List of 426 Sets of Synonyms - How they Differ - Total of 2307 Words - 42

SYNONYMS: blaze, flame, flare, flash, glare, incandescence, glow.
These nouns denote bright light, especially when it is a visible sign of combustion.

Blaze stresses intensity of burning and implies brilliance of illumination: We warmed our hands near the blaze of the campfire.
Flame pertains to a jet or tongue of fire: The paper burned with a yellow and blue flame and then disintegrated.
Flare applies to a dazzling but unsteady burst of light: Flares of brilliant red shot up from the smokestack.
Flash denotes a sudden momentary burst: The flash of strobe lights and the insistent beat of the music made the disco a favorite gathering place for young people.
Glare emphasizes intensely and often intolerably bright light: The glare of the oncoming headlights temporarily blinded me.
Incandescence suggests the brilliance of something white-hot: When heated to incandescence, each element marks the spectrum of light it emits with a characteristic set of lines.
Glow stresses light in the absence of visible flame; it particularly suggests steadiness of radiation without intense brilliance: The burners give off a red glow.