It's the Word of the Day podcast for December 9th.
Today's word is fulgent, spelled F-U-L-G-E-N-T.
Fulgent is an adjective.
It's a formal, often poetic word used to describe something that is dazzlingly bright.
It's a synonym of the word radiant.
Here's the word used in a sentence from The New York Times by Mitchell S. Jackson.
Kendrick Lamar starts wrapping a verse with his back to the crowd.
On giant screens behind him,
you can see the chrome embellishments along the outseam of his pants and one of his handles,
Oklahoma,
emblazoned in bold white, old English letters across the back of his black vest,
the yellow gradient of his sunglasses, the fulgent glint of his diamond earrings.
The weary son betook himself to West, then issued Vesper from the Fulgent West.
That's how the appearance of the evening star in the glowing western sky at sunset looked to 19th century poet Wordsworth.
Fulgiant was a particularly apt choice to describe the dazzling light of the sky at sunset.
The word comes from the Latin verb fulgere, meaning to shine brightly.
While not the most common of descriptors,
English speakers have been using Fulgiant to depict radiant splendor
since at least the 15th century.
With your Word of the Day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.