Definitions for lambent

lambent lam·bent

Spelling: [lam-buh nt]
IPA: /ˈlæm bənt/

Lambent is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 232 anagrams from letters in lambent (abelmnt).

Definitions for lambent

adjective

  1. running or moving lightly over a surface:
  2. dealing lightly and gracefully with a subject; brilliantly playful:
  3. softly bright or radiant:

Origin of lambent

1640-50; Latin lambent- (stem of lambēns) lapping, present participle of lambere to lick, wash (said of water or fire); akin to lap3; see Examples for lambent

She smiled again in that lambent heat-lightning way of hers.

Their eyes are luminous and lambent, but it is a melancholy light.

Madame's gray eyes, full of lambent fires, looked into his own.

A lambent spotlight shines on each individual in his portraits, reminding the world of their forgotten existence.

Just as we were parting at the door, Helen turned full on me her great, lambent eyes.

A sudden tremor seemed to shake the lambent flame that had lured him on.

This time he might return, immaculate, from the path of that "lambent flamelet."

Every now and then there would come a lambent flash of lightning.

Venus flamed a lambent disk of pale saffron, low over the horizon.

Within the room to which it belonged a lambent light played.

Word Value for lambent
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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