IN-CANDICE-NT

IN·CAN·DES·CENT

/ˌinkənˈdes(ə)nt/Submit

adjective

adjective: incandescent

1. emitting light as a result of being heated. (see definition of name)

"plumes of incandescent liquid rock"

synonyms: white-hot, intensely hot, red-hot, burning, fiery, on fire, blazing, ablaze, aflame;

• (of an electric light) containing a filament which glows white-hot when heated by a current passed through it.

2. full of strong emotion; passionate.

(We’ll get to that.)

"Mravinsky's incandescent performance of Siegfried's Funeral March"

• extremely angry. (We’ll get to that, too).

"she was incandescent at the way the IRS acted" (Actually, I was!)

synonyms: furious, enraged, raging, very angry, incensed, seething, infuriated, fuming, boiling, inflamed, irate, wrathful, in a temper, beside oneself;

More antonyms: calm

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’).