ECLATS Synonyms

• brightness enough to blind partially and temporarily

• to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light

• amaze or bewilder, as with brilliant wit or intellect or skill

• a sudden intense burst of radiant energy

• a momentary brightness

• a short vivid experience

• a sudden brilliant understanding

• a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)

• a gaudy outward display

• a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate

• a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story

• a bright patch of color used for decoration or identification

• a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph

• tastelessly showy

• gleam or glow intermittently

• appear briefly

• display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously

• make known or cause to appear with great speed

• run or move very quickly or hastily

• expose or show briefly

• protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal

• emit a brief burst of light

• an appearance of reflected light

• a flash of light (especially reflected light)

• be shiny, as if wet

• shine brightly, like a star or a light

• to shine with faint or brief light

• the quality of shining with a bright reflected light

• the occurrence of a small flash or spark

• be shiny, as if wet

• arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center

• having rays or ray-like parts as in the flower heads of daisies

• send out rays or waves

• send out real or metaphoric rays; the children radiated joyous energy

• extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center

• have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink

• cause to be seen by emitting light as if in rays

• experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion

• issue or emerge in rays or waves

• spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate

• give off

• reflect brightly

• emit or reflect light in a flickering manner

• fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon

• be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity

• a weak and tremulous light

• shine with a weak or fitful light

• give off a shimmering reflection, as of silk

• the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light

• be bright by reflecting or casting light

• emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light

• be shiny, as if wet

• be distinguished or eminent

• be clear and obvious

• have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink

• throw or flash the light of (a lamp)

• touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly

• experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion

• make (a surface) shine

• a momentary flash of light

• Scottish writer of satirical novels (born in 1918)

• merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance

• electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field

• a small but noticeable trace of some quality that might become stronger

• a small fragment of a burning substance thrown out by burning material or by friction

• put in motion or move to act

• emit or produce sparks

• enthusiastic approval

• praise vociferously

• clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval

• enthusiastic approval

• enthusiastic approval

• enthusiastic approval

• cheap or pretentious or vain display

• ceremonial elegance and splendor