Thursday, April 12, 2018

Word of the week

incandescent:  / ɪnkanˈdɛs(ə)nt /  (adjective) 

1. Glowing with a brilliant white light; emitting an intense light, especially as a result of being heated to a white-hot state.

2. Intensely bright, luminous.

3. Seared by strong emotion, passionate.

4. Extremely angry, incensed.


[From Latin incandescere, ‘grow hot, glow’, from candescere, ‘become white’]