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Definition of incandescent : White, glowing, or luminous, with intense heat; as, incandescent carbon or platinum; hence, clear; shining; brilliant.

Synonyms:

intense, glorious, refulgent, effulgent, lucent, irradiant, light, lambent, beamy, candent, shiny

glaring, radiant, flashing, blinding, luminescent, beaming, gleaming, neon, radiating, glinting, lustrous, shimmering, glowing, glistening, luminous, dazzling, glittering, illuminating, well lit, scintillating, blazing, garish, bright, lucid, phosphorescent, sparkling, flaring, brilliant, vivid, shining, fluorescent, lurid, fiery

Usage examples:

• The incandescent light was flickering dimly in the draught that the sea- wind drove through the window and the front door. - "A Poor Man's House", Stephen Sydney Reynolds.
• And still the daylight kept flooding insensibly out of the east, which was soon to grow incandescent and cast up that red- hot cannon- ball, the rising sun. - "New-Arabian-Nights", Stevenson, Robert Louis.
• The luminous cone is known as the " reducing" flame, for in it metallic oxides are reduced, the oxygen being taken up by the small incandescent particles of carbon. - "The Elements of Blowpipe Analysis", Frederick Hutton Getman.