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| Main Entry: | glowing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | burning, bright |
| Synonyms: | beaming, flaming, florid, flush, flushed, lambent, luminous, lustrous, red, rich, rubicund, ruddy, sanguine, vibrant, vivid, warm, aglow, gleaming, phosphorescent, suffused |
| Main Entry: | glowing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very happy, enthusiastic |
| Synonyms: | ardent, avid, blazing, burning, complimentary, desirous, eager, ecstatic, fervent, fervid, fierce, fiery, flaming, heated, impassioned, keen, laudatory, passionate, rave, rhapsodic, zealous, adulatory, eulogistic, hot-blooded, panegyrical |
| Antonyms: | dull, unenthusiastic, unhappy, unsmiling |
| Main Entry: | glow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | burn, radiate |
| Synonyms: | blare, blaze, blush, brighten, color, crimson, fill, flame, flare, flush, gleam, glimmer, glisten, glitter, ignite, kindle, light, mantle, pink, redden, rose, rouge, shine, smolder, thrill, tingle, twinkle, be suffused, pinken |
| Main Entry: | blush |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pink coloring |
| Synonyms: | bloom, blossom, burning, color, flush, glow, glowing, flushing, mantling, pink tinge, reddening, redness, rosiness, rosy tint, ruddiness, scarlet |
| Antonyms: | paleness, whiteness, pallidity |
| Main Entry: | cordial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, sociable |
| Synonyms: | affable, affectionate, agreeable, amicable, cheerful, companionable, congenial, convivial, cozy, earnest, genial, glowing, gracious, happy, heartfelt, hearty, invigorating, jovial, mellow, neighborly, palsy-walsy*, polite, responsive, sincere, social, sympathetic, tender, warm, warmhearted, wholehearted, buddy-buddy*, clubby, heart-to-heart, red-carpet, welcoming |
| Antonyms: | aloof, cool, disagreeable, hostile, indifferent, inhospitable, unfriendly, unpleasant, unsociable, uncordial |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fervent/fervid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | enthusiastic, excited |
| Synonyms: | animated, ardent, blazing, burning, devout, eager, earnest, ecstatic, emotional, enthused, fiery, glowing, heartfelt, hearty, hot*, impassioned, intense, passionate, pious, religious, responsive, serious, sincere, unfeigned, vehement, warm, warmhearted, wholehearted, zealous, dying to, falling all over oneself, go great guns, hot-blooded, perfervid |
| Antonyms: | cool, discouraged, dispirited, impassive, uncaring, unenthusiastic, unexcited |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fiery |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | passionate; on fire |
| Synonyms: | ablaze, afire, alight, blazing, burning, choleric, combustible, enthusiastic, excitable, febrile, fervid, feverish, fierce, flaming, flickering, flushed, glowing, heated, hot, hot-tempered*, impassioned, impetuous, impulsive, inflamed, intense, irascible, irritable, madcap, peppery, precipitate, red-hot*, spirited, unrestrained, vehement, violent, aflame, agitable, conflagrant, fevered, flaring, hot-blooded, hot-headed, igneous, ignited, in flames, perfervid |
| Antonyms: | cold, cool, dull, flat, impassive, subdued |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impassioned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | excited, vehement |
| Synonyms: | animated, ardent, blazing, burning, deep, fervent, fervid, fierce, fiery, flaming, furious, glowing, heated*, inflamed, inspired, intense, melodramatic, moving, mushy, passionate, powerful, profound, red-hot*, romantic, rousing, sentimental, starry-eyed*, stirring, torrid, violent, vivid, warm, zealous, fired up, hot-blooded, overemotional, perfervid, steamed up, white-hot, wild about, worked up |
| Notes: | impassioned means characterized by intense emotion or full of passion, while impassive means having or revealing little emotion |
| Antonyms: | apathetic, calm, cool, impassive, indifferent, unconcerned, unexcited |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lustrous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | glossy, shining |
| Synonyms: | bright, dazzling, effulgent, fulgent, glorious, glowing, incandescent, lambent, luminous, polished, radiant, refulgent, shimmering, shiny, sparkling, splendid, waxy, burnished, glacé, gleaming, glinting, glistening, lucent |
| Antonyms: | dark, dull, matte, unshiny |
| Main Entry: | molten |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | melted |
| Synonyms: | glowing, fused, igneous, liquefied, smelted |
| Main Entry: | red |
| Part of Speech: | noun, adjective |
| Definition: | color of blood; shade resembling such a color |
| Synonyms: | bloodshot, blooming, blush, brick, cardinal, carmine, cherry, crimson, flaming, florid, flushed, glowing, healthy, inflamed, maroon, pink, rose, roseate, rosy, rubicund, ruddy, rust, sanguine, bittersweet, burgundy, cerise, chestnut, claret, copper, coral, dahlia, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, infrared, magenta, puce, ruby, rufescent, russet, salmon, scarlet, titian, vermilion, wine |
| Main Entry: | resplendent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bright, radiant |
| Synonyms: | beaming, blazing, brilliant, dazzling, effulgent, flaming, glittering, glorious, glossy, glowing, gorgeous, luminous, lustrous, magnificent, proud, refulgent, shining, shiny, splendid, sublime, superb, gleaming, irradiant, splendiferous, splendorous |
| Antonyms: | cloudy, dull, gloomy, withering |
| Main Entry: | ruddy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pinkish, blushing |
| Synonyms: | blooming, crimson, florid, flush, flushed, fresh, full-blooded, glowing, healthy, pink, red, roseate, rosy, rubicund, sanguine, blowsy, bronzed, red-complexioned, reddish, ruby, scarlet |
| Antonyms: | pale |
| Main Entry: | sweaty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | damp with perspiration |
| Synonyms: | clammy, glowing, hot, moist, soaked, sticky, wet, bathed, covered with sweat, diaphoretic, drenched, dripping, drippy, perspiring, perspiry, stinky, sudoric, sweating |
| Antonyms: | dry |
| Main Entry: | vivid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intense, powerful |
| Synonyms: | active, animated, bright, brilliant, clear, colorful, definite, distinct, dramatic, dynamic, eloquent, energetic, expressive, flamboyant, gay, glowing, graphic, lifelike, lively, lucid, meaningful, memorable, picturesque, realistic, resplendent, rich, sharp, shining, spirited, stirring, striking, strong, telling, theatrical, vigorous, highly colored, true-to-life |
| Antonyms: | dull, weak |
| Main Entry: | fervent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | enthusiastic |
| Synonyms: | animated, ardent, blazing, burning, devout, eager, earnest, ecstatic, emotional, enthused, excited, fervid, fiery, glowing, gung ho, heartfelt, hearty, hot, impassioned, intense, passionate, pious, religious, responsive, serious, sincere, tender, unfeigned, vehement, warm, warmhearted, wholehearted, zealous, dying to, gotta have, hopped up, hot for, hot-blooded, perfervid |
| Antonyms: | apathetic, cool, dispassionate, dispirited, indifferent, unenthusiastic, unexcited |
| Main Entry: | shimmering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | glimmering |
| Synonyms: | beaming, bright, glittering, glowing, scintillating, shining, sparkling, twinkling, glimmery, glistening, twinkly |
| Main Entry: | sparkling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | glinting |
| Synonyms: | bright, brilliant, glowing, radiant, scintillating, shimmering, shining, gleaming |
| Main Entry: | beaming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | radiant; beautiful |
| Synonyms: | bright, brilliant, clinquant, effulgent, fulgent, glittering, glowing, incandescent, lambent, luminous, refulgent, scintillating, sparkling, flashing, gleaming, glistening, lucent |
| Antonyms: | ugly |
| Main Entry: | burning |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | blazing, flashing |
| Synonyms: | afire, alight, broiling, fiery, flaming, glowing, heated, hot, illuminated, incandescent, on fire, red-hot*, scorching, torrid, aflame, blistering, conflagrant, enkindled, flaring, gleaming, ignited, in flames, kindled, oxidizing, searing, sizzling, smoking, smouldering, white-hot |
| Antonyms: | cold, cool |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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