resplendent

resplendent
    adj 1: having great beauty and splendor; "a glorious spring
           morning"; "a glorious sunset"; "splendid costumes"; "a
           kind of splendiferous native simplicity" [syn:
           {glorious}, {resplendent}, {splendid}, {splendiferous}]
    

Resplendent \Re*splen"dent\ (-dent), a. [L. resplendens, -entis,
   p. pr. of resplendere to shine brightly; pref. re- re- +
   splendere to shine. See {Splendid}.]
   Shining with brilliant luster; very bright. --
   {Re*splen"dent*ly}, adv.
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         With royal arras and resplendent gold.   --Spenser.
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RESPLENDENT, adj.  Like a simple American citizen beduking himself in
his lodge, or affirming his consequence in the Scheme of Things as an
elemental unit of a parade.

        The Knights of Dominion were so resplendent in their velvet-
    and-gold that their masters would hardly have known them.
                                           "Chronicles of the Classes"
    

47 Moby Thesaurus words for "resplendent":
      beaming, bedazzling, blazing, blinding, blooming, bright,
      bright and shining, brilliant, charismatic, dazzling, devastating,
      divine, effulgent, flamboyant, flaming, fulgent, fulgid, garish,
      glamorous, glaring, glary, glorious, glowing, gorgeous, heavenly,
      illustrious, killing, lustrous, magic, magnificent, numinous,
      proud, radiant, raving, ravishing, refulgent, shining, sparkling,
      splendent, splendid, splendiferous, splendorous, splendrous,
      stunning, sublime, superb, vivid