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Fulgurant

Definition: Fulgurant

Fulgurant

Adjective

1. Amazingly impressive brilliance or skill; suggestive of the flashing of lightning; "the skater's dazzling virtuosic leaps"; "these great best canvases still look as astonishing and as invitingly new as they did...when...his fulgurant popularity was in full growth"- Janet Flanner; "adventures related...in a style both vivid and fulgurous"- Idwal Jones.

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

Date "fulgurant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

Etymology: Fulgurant \Ful"gu*rant\a. [Latin expression fulgurans, present participle of fulgurare.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: Fulgurant

Synonyms: dazzling (adj), fulgurous (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Fulgurant

English words defined with "fulgurant": dazzlingfulgurous. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Fulgurant" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (fuliginous, lightning), Romanian (flashing, lightning).

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Modern Translation: Fulgurant

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

Hebrew 

  

בזקי. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ulgurantfay

   

Turkish

  

parlak (aglow, ardent, bright, brightly, brilliant, clear, dazzling, effulgent, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flashily, flashy, fulgent, glace, glittering, glossy, glowing, gorgeous, illuminant, incandescent, irradiant, jazzy, lambent, live, lively, loud, lucent, luminescent, luminous, lustrous, meteoric, oriental, polished, pyrotechnic, pyrotechnical, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, sheeny, shining, shiny, sleek, sparkling, splendent, splendid, star, staring, starry, sunny, vivid), şimşek gibi parlayan, ışıl ışıl (ablaze, agleam, alight, ardent, brightly, brilliant, brilliantly, flaring, fresh, glaring, glaringly, glittering, irradiant, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, shining, sparkling, sparklingly, starry). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Fulgurant"

Words rhyming with "fulgurant" (pronounced 'Ful"gu*rant'): Aberrant, Administrant, Adumbrant, Amarant, Arrant, Calcitrant, Celebrant, Conflagrant, Contraremonstrant, Cormorant, Corroborant, Counter-courant, Currant, Figurant, flagrant, fragrant, Gerant, hydrant, IMMIGRANT, knight-errant, Maturant, migrant, ministrant, Nonjurant, Obumbrant, Penetrant, Premonstrant, quadrant, recalcitrant, reentrant, registrant, restaurant, Roborant, Self-ignorant, spirant, Subministrant, Suppurant, susurrant, Vibrant. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Fulgurant

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-f-g-l-n-r-t-u-u"

-1 letter: unartful.

-2 letters: futural, ungular.

-3 letters: artful, flaunt, frugal, fungal, langur, unfurl, ungual, ungula.

-4 letters: augur, fault, flung, fugal, furan, gault, gaunt, gnarl, graft, grant, grunt, gular, lunar, rugal, ulnar, ultra.

-5 letters: aunt, fang, farl, fart, faun, flag, flan, flat, frag, frat, frug, fugu, furl, gaun, gaur, glut, gnar, gnat, gran, grat, guan, guar, gulf, guru.

 Words containing the letters "a-f-g-l-n-r-t-u-u"
 

+1 letter: ungrateful.

 

+2 letters: fulgurating, fulguration.

 

+3 letters: fulgurations, ungratefully.

 

+5 letters: ungratefulness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Fulgurant


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

46 75 6C 67 75 72 61 6E 74

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)

..-.    ..-    .-..    --.    ..-    .-.    .-    -.    -

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

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

01000110 01110101 01101100 01100111 01110101 01110010 01100001 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#117 &#108 &#103 &#117 &#114 &#97 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0075 006C 0067 0075 0072 0061 006E 0074

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

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

408778738784678086

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INDEX

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


  

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