resplendent

Etymology

From the obsolete sense of the English verb splendish (“to shine”), from Latin splendere (“to shine”), or from resplend + -ent, from Latin resplendere.

adj

  1. Shiny and colourful, and thus pleasing to the eye.
    Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines. 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings
  2. (mathematics) Exhibiting the property of resplendency in Peano arithmetic.

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