fulgurant

Thân thiện

The skater's fulgurant leaps across the ice captivated the audience.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning: Describes something that is strikingly brilliant, dazzling, or impressive in a sudden and dramatic way, much like a flash of lightning.
   • Vivid and brilliant: Can describe a style, quality, or phenomenon that is intensely bright, vivid, or intellectually dazzling.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The artist's fulgurant use of color captured the energy of the storm.
  • His fulgurant rise to fame took the industry by surprise.
  • She delivered her arguments with fulgurant clarity.

Advanced Usage

• Literary and descriptive use: "Fulgurant" is a literary and somewhat rare adjective, often used in formal or artistic contexts to describe something with sudden, brilliant, and striking impact.
  • The novel is written in a fulgurant prose that illuminates the darkest subjects.
• Metaphorical use: Commonly used metaphorically to describe non-visual phenomena, such as talent, success, or wit, that appear or impress with sudden, lightning-like speed and intensity.
  • The CEO's fulgurant insight solved the crisis in minutes.

Variants and Related Words

• Fulgurous (adj): Having the quality of lightning; flashing. Often used interchangeably with "fulgurant" in literary descriptions.
  • The fulgurous display of fireworks lit up the night sky.
• Fulgency (n): The state or quality of being bright and dazzling. (Rare)
• Fulgent (adj): Shining brightly; dazzling. A more common synonym.

Synonyms

• Dazzling: Extremely impressive, beautiful, or skillful.
• Blazing: Very hot or bright; shining with a strong light. Used metaphorically for intensity.
• Coruscating: Flashing; sparkling. Often used to describe wit or intellect.
• Resplendent: Attractive and impressive through being richly colorful or sumptuous.

Antonyms

• Dull: Lacking brightness or vividness.
• Dim: Not shining brightly or clearly.
• Unimpressive: Not inspiring respect or admiration.

Related Idioms and Phrases

(Note: There are no common idioms or phrasal verbs directly formed with "fulgurant" due to its rarity and specific adjectival nature.) - Like a bolt from the blue: Something sudden and unexpected, similar to the suddenness implied by "fulgurant," though this idiom specifically refers to surprise. - His resignation was a bolt from the blue.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. amazingly impressive; 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

Từ đồng nghĩa

• dazzling
• eye-popping
• fulgurous