prismatic
prismatic Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Exhibiting a brilliant, varied play of colors like the spectrum produced when light passes through a prism; vividly multicolored or iridescent.
"Morning sunlight filtered through the mist above the waterfall, casting a prismatic glow across the canyon."
Relating to, resembling, or formed by a geometric or optical prism.
"The mineralogist examined the elongated, six-sided prismatic crystals of quartz under a magnifying lens."
Highly varied, complex, or offering multiple distinct perspectives.
"The novel offers a prismatic portrait of urban life by weaving together the voices of twelve different narrators."
• Rhymes for prismatic
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 16th century from Late Latin prismaticus, from Ancient Greek prismatikos, derived from prisma ('something sawed', hence a geometric prism), from the verb priein ('to saw').