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Fulgid

Definition: Fulgid

Fulgid

Adjective

1. Having brief brilliant points or flashes of light; "bugle beads all aglitter"; "glinting eyes"; "glinting water"; "his glittering eyes were cold and malevolent"; "shop window full of glittering Christmas trees"; "glittery costume jewelry"; "scintillant mica"; "the scintillating stars"; "a dress with sparkly sequins"; "`glistering' is an archaic term".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Fulgid \Ful"gid\, adjective. [Latin expression fulgidus. See Fulgent.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: Fulgid

Synonyms: aglitter(p) (adj), glinting (adj), glistering (adj), glittering (adj), glittery (adj), scintillant (adj), scintillating (adj), sparkling(a) (adj), sparkly (adj). (additional references)

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Modern Translation: Fulgid

Language Translations for "fulgid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Manx

  

chentagh (igneous, lightninglike). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ulgidfay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Fulgid"

Words rhyming with "fulgid" (pronounced 'Ful"gid'): Algid, Phalangid, Solpugid, turgid. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Fulgid

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-f-g-i-l-u"

-1 letter: fluid, guild.

-2 letters: gild, guid, gulf, iglu.

-3 letters: dig, dug, dui, fid, fig, fil, flu, fud, fug, gid, gul, lid, lug.

-4 letters: id, if, li.

 Words containing the letters "d-f-g-i-l-u"
 

+2 letters: dirgeful, fuddling, ingulfed, uglified.

 

+3 letters: foundling, lifeguard, unfolding, upfolding.

 

+4 letters: befuddling, defaulting, delightful, disgustful, dulcifying, fluidising, fluidizing, foundlings, fungicidal, lifeguards, unfadingly.

 

+5 letters: desulfuring, disgraceful, feudalizing, floundering, lifeguarded, unfeignedly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Fulgid


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 75 6C 67 69 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01110101 01101100 01100111 01101001 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#117 &#108 &#103 &#105 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0075 006C 0067 0069 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

408778737570

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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