What Does Incandescent Mean?

Incandescent means glowing with heat. It is an adjective of the word incandescence. Therefore anything that glows with heat and light is said to be incandescent. Incandescence is an expression for the release of visible light from a hot body owing to its high temperature. Therefore light and heat from a flame, candle, campfire or a light bulb is known as incandescent in nature. There is a thermal generation of light in a light bulb through the radiant filaments. Incandescent bulbs are also called as electric bulbs.

Incandescent things are shining, brilliant and very bright. Thus incandescent means giving off or reflecting light readily or in large amounts. Beamy, bright, brilliant, effulgent, irradiant, lambent, lucent, luminous, lustrous, radiant, refulgent, shiny etc are some of the synonyms of incandescent. Dark and dim are the antonyms of this word. It is pronounced as 'in-kuh n-des-uh nt'.

It is a heated light bulb than can burn which is called incandescent