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.

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)

Crosswords: Fulgurant

English words defined with "fulgurant": dazzling ♦ fulgurous. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Fulgurant" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

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

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.

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)

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.
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