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lambent
[ lam-buhnt ]
adjective
- softly bright or radiant:
a lambent light.
- running or moving lightly over a surface:
lambent tongues of flame.
- dealing lightly and gracefully with a subject; brilliantly playful:
lambent wit.
lambent
/ ˈlæmbənt /
adjective
- (esp of a flame) flickering softly over a surface
- glowing with soft radiance
- (of wit or humour) light or brilliant
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Derived Forms
- ˈlambency, noun
- ˈlambently, adverb
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Other Words From
- lambent·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of lambent1
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Example Sentences
There appears to be a lambent light at the end of the tunnel, yet cavalier attitudes towards the pandemic, particularly among younger people who, as a group, are under-vaccinated, resembles what we saw last summer just before the second wave.
A lambent spotlight shines on each individual in his portraits, reminding the world of their forgotten existence.
Another has joined the band—a little shadowy form, with lambent eyes, and the smile of a seraph.
Each stalk had turned into a tall, straight flame of lambent rose.
Suddenly, Mrs. Vansittart's eyes gleamed again with that lambent light so oddly at variance with her smile.
There was no suggestion of a body, only that majestic head crowned with hyacinthine locks and limned in lambent fire.
Crazed by the infernal round, unable to resist the fascination of the lambent flames, one of them sprang and fell into the fire.
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