causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "
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brilliant
full of light; shining intensely; "a brilliant star"; "brilliant chandeliers"
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aglitter(p)
having brief brilliant points or flashes of light; "bugle beads all aglitter"; "glinting eyes"; "glinting water"; "his glittering eyes were cold and malevolent"; "shop window full of glittering Christmas trees"; "glittery costume jewelry"; "scintillant mi
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bright
emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts; "the sun was bright and hot"; "a bright sunlit room"
