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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning;
- Example: "the skater's dazzling virtuosic leaps"
- Example: "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
- Example: "adventures related...in a style both vivid and fulgurous"- Idwal Jones
[syn: dazzling, eye-popping, fulgurant, fulgurous]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fulgurant \Ful"gu*rant\a. [L. fulgurans, p. pr. of fulgurare.] Lightening. [R.] --Dr. H. More. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

fulgurant adj 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 [syn: dazzling, eye-popping, fulgurant, fulgurous]