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burnished
adjective as in bright
Strongest matches
adjective as in bronze
adjective as in glassy
adjective as in glazed
Strongest matches
Weak matches
adjective as in gleaming
adjective as in glistening
adjective as in glossy
adjective as in irradiant
Weak matches
- ablaze
- aglow
- alight
- argent
- auroral
- beaming
- beamy
- blazing
- brilliant
- burning
- coruscating
- dazzling
- effulgent
- flashing
- fulgent
- fulgid
- glaring
- gleaming
- glistening
- glittering
- glossy
- golden
- illuminated
- illumined
- incandescent
- intense
- irradiated
- lambent
- light
- lighted
- limpid
- lucent
- luminous
- lustrous
- mirrorlike
- moonlit
- phosphorescent
- polished
- radiant
- refulgent
- relucent
- resplendent
- scintillating
- shimmering
- shiny
- silvery
- sparkling
- sunlit
- sunny
- twinkling
- vivid
adjective as in light
adjective as in lucent
Weak matches
- ablaze
- aglow
- alight
- argent
- auroral
- beaming
- beamy
- blazing
- brilliant
- burning
- coruscating
- dazzling
- effulgent
- flashing
- fulgent
- fulgid
- glaring
- gleaming
- glistening
- glittering
- glossy
- golden
- illuminated
- illumined
- incandescent
- intense
- irradiant
- irradiated
- lambent
- light
- lighted
- limpid
- luminous
- lustrous
- mirrorlike
- moonlit
- phosphorescent
- polished
- radiant
- refulgent
- relucent
- resplendent
- scintillating
- shimmering
- shiny
- silvery
- sparkling
- sunlit
- sunny
- twinkling
- vivid
adjective as in lustrous
adjective as in polished
Example Sentences
As a kid, you'd admired pictures of knights in burnished suits of armor.
We can never know how much of this was innate in him, or how much of was shaped and burnished in a dark, solitary cell.
There was a once-grand dining room with mirrored walls and burnished chandeliers.
The Florida senator further burnished his presidential cred on a visit to Israel this week.
McQueen's connection to the working class was a truth burnished by mythology.
They carried spears that flashed and glittered in the sun, as did their burnished shields and helmets.
Then again she brushed and brushed, until the ripply mass shone like unto burnished gold.
Tik-tok moved by clockwork, and was made all of burnished copper.
In places it was wholly metal, smooth and shining like burnished copper.
The helmet, though burnished and adorned with a horse's tail, had the unmistakable outlines of a copper kettle.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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