coruscant

[ kuh-ruhs-kuhnt, kawr-uhs-, kor- ]

adjective

1. sparkling or gleaming; scintillating; coruscating.

Word History and Origins

Origin of coruscant¹

First recorded in 1475–85; from Latin coruscant-, stem of coruscāns, present participle of coruscāre “to quiver, flash,” derivative of coruscus “quivering, flashing”; -ant

Example Sentences

I arrived just as he was finishing a daily medical ablution and found myself waiting in his studio, gawping at the new self-­portrait in all its coruscant color.

From New York Times

Time foots it fleeter far Than all the surging crowd your beauty smites Like some coruscant star.

From Project Gutenberg

Between his thumb and forefinger glittered something exquisitely coruscant in the sunlight.

From Project Gutenberg

The genuine Europe is ardent, noble, progressive and coruscant; and from Cadiz to the White Sea, that genuine Europe is on the side of freedom, on the side of the North.

From Project Gutenberg

Upon the white velvet lining lay a pretty set of jewels—sapphires, rarely pellucid; then clear pendants sparkling like drops of deep sea-water frozen into coruscant solidity.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• animated
• bright
• brilliant
• dazzling
• glistening
• glittering
• lively
• scintillating
• shimmering
• shining
• spirited
• starry