List of 426 Sets of Synonyms - How they Differ - Total of 2307 Words - 55

SYNONYMS: bright, brilliant, radiant, lustrous, luminous, incandescent.
These adjectives refer to what emits or reflects light.

Bright is the most general: bright sunshine; a bright blue; bright teeth.
Brilliant implies intense brightness and often suggests sparkling, glittering, or gleaming light: a brilliant color; a brilliant gemstone.
Something that is radiant radiates or seems to radiate light: a radiant sunrise; a radiant smile.
A lustrous object originates no light but reflects an agreeable sheen: thick, lustrous auburn hair; a necklace of lustrous pearls.
Luminous refers broadly to what shines with light but is said especially of something that glows in the dark: The watch has a luminous dial.
Incandescent . stresses burning brilliance, as of something white-hot: Flames consist of incandescent gases