resplendent

English

Alternative forms

• resplendant (obsolete)

Etymology

From the obsolete sense of the English verb splendish (“to shine”), from Latin splendere (“to shine”), or from resplend +‎ -ent, from Latin resplendere.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈsplɛn.dənt/

Adjective

resplendent (comparative more resplendent, superlative most resplendent)

1. Shiny and colourful, and thus pleasing to the eye.
   • 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings:

     Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.

2. (mathematics) Exhibiting the property of resplendency in Peano arithmetic.

Related terms

• resplend
• splendid
• splendor

Translations

shiny and colourful, and thus pleasing to the eye

• Arabic: نَاضِر (nāḍir)
• Bulgarian: бляскав (bg) (bljaskav)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 燦爛／灿烂 (zh) (cànlàn)

• Czech: zářivý (cs), oslnivý, třpytivý, skvoucí (cs)
• Danish: strålende
• Dutch: sprankelend (nl), blinkend (nl)
• Finnish: loistava (fi)
• French: resplendissant (fr) m
• German: prachtvoll (de), prächtig (de), glänzend (de)
• Greek: αστραφτερός (el) (astrafterós)
• Hungarian: ragyogó (hu)
• Maori: wheriko
• Polish: błyszczący (pl)
• Portuguese: resplendente, resplandecente (pt)
• Russian: блиста́тельный (ru) (blistátelʹnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: blistav (sh) m
• Turkish: göz alıcı (tr), muhteşem (tr), şaşaalı (tr)

See also

• resplendid (misspelling)

Latin

Verb

resplendent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of resplendeō