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Shining vs Splendent - What's the difference?

shining | splendent |

As adjectives the difference between shining and splendent

is that shining is emitting light while splendent is shining; glossy; lustrous.

As a verb shining

is .

As a noun shining

is a bright emission of light; a gleam.

shining

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Emitting light.
  • *
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining , and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}
  • Reflecting light.
  • Having a high polish or sheen.
  • Having exceptional merit.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bright emission of light; a gleam.

    • splendent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • shining; glossy; lustrous
    • splendent planets
    splendent metals
  • Very conspicuous; illustrious.
  • * Sir H. Wotton
    • Great and splendent fortunes.
  • (archaic) splendid, marvellous, wonderful
  • *{{quote-book, year=1814, author=The Rev. H. F. Cary, M.A., title=The Vision of Paradise, Complete, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=--And lo! toward me, next, Another of those splendent forms approach'd, That, by its outward bright'ning, testified The will it had to pleasure me. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1759, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVIII. (of XXI.), chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=July 1st, Daun had crossed the Elbe (Daun let us say for brevity, though it is Daun and Karl, or even Karl and Daun, Karl being chief, and capable of saying so at times, though Daun is very splendent since Kolin),--crossed the Elbe above Brandeis; Nadasti, with precursor Pandours, now within an hour's march of Jung-Bunzlau;--and it was time to go. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1592, author=R.D., title=Hypnerotomachia, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=After the triumph followed the faire Parthenopeian Leria'', with a lawrell crowne, accompanied with ''Melanthia , whose habites and voices represented the pride of Greece,[A] whereupon the great Macedon rested his head: She bare a splendent lampe, communicating the light thereof with hir companion, then the rest more excellent both in voice and song. }} ----