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synonyms for phosphorescent

  • blazing
  • brilliant
  • dazzling
  • flashing
  • glistening
  • glittering
  • golden
  • intense
  • luminous
  • radiant
  • shimmering
  • shiny
  • silvery
  • sparkling
  • sunny
  • vivid
  • ablaze
  • aglow
  • alight
  • argent
  • auroral
  • beaming
  • burning
  • burnished
  • coruscating
  • effulgent
  • fulgent
  • fulgid
  • glaring
  • gleaming
  • glossy
  • illuminated
  • illumined
  • incandescent
  • irradiated
  • lambent
  • light
  • lighted
  • limpid
  • lustrous
  • mirrorlike
  • moonlit
  • polished
  • relucent
  • resplendent
  • scintillating
  • sunlit
  • twinkling
  • flaming
  • florid
  • flushed
  • gleaming
  • luminous
  • vibrant
  • vivid
  • beaming
  • flush
  • red
  • rich
  • sanguine
  • suffused
  • warm
  • aglow
  • lambent
  • lustrous
  • rubicund
  • ruddy
On this page you'll find 317 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to phosphorescent, such as: blazing, brilliant, dazzling, flashing, glistening, and glittering.

antonyms for phosphorescent

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  • cloudy
  • dark
  • dim
  • dull
  • gloomy
  • black
  • depressed
  • depressing
  • doleful
  • dreary
  • dusky
  • horrible
  • murky
  • normal
  • obscure
  • pale
  • pastel
  • somber
  • stupid
  • threatening
  • typical
  • unaware
  • unhappy
  • unintelligent
  • unpromising
      • dull
      • obscured
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      How to use phosphorescent in a sentence

      The Japanese matted floor, even in darkness, gives out a sort of ghostly, phosphorescent glow.
      THE DRAGON PAINTERMARY MCNEIL FENOLLOSA
      Inside each was a small projection apparently of a fungoid character, that was phosphorescent.
      THE DEVIL-TREE OF EL DORADOFRANK AUBREY
      The waiters were all Martian slaves, he noticed, their phosphorescent owl-eyes smoldering in the dim blue light.
      SECURITYPOUL WILLIAM ANDERSON
      The air and the plain were literally sparkling with the phosphorescent light of the fire-fly.
      THE INDIAN IN HIS WIGWAMHENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFT
      During my fortnight's stay I often sat listening to the eloquent silence of these phosphorescent nights.
      AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL REMINISCENCES WITH FAMILY LETTERS AND NOTES ON MUSICCHARLES GOUNOD
      Sunday was a day at Edwardes Square from which Michael returned almost phosphorescent with decay.
      SINISTER STREET, VOL. 1COMPTON MACKENZIE
      Phosphoridrosis is a rare condition, in which the sweat is phosphorescent.
      ESSENTIALS OF DISEASES OF THE SKINHENRY WEIGHTMAN STELWAGON
      Their polished sides seemed one huge mirror, bright as glass, and a phosphorescent glow hung about their tails.
      THE ONSLAUGHT FROM RIGELFLETCHER PRATT
      Paper lanterns swung among the trees like phosphorescent fruits and drew a myriad fluttering moths.
      WHERE THE PAVEMENT ENDSJOHN RUSSELL
      The phosphorescent pathway in the wake of the big ship gleamed and scintillated.
      JACK HARKAWAY IN NEW YORKBRACEBRIDGE HEMYNG
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