incandescent, adj. 1. alight, lit, lighted, illuminating, lambent, irradiant; sunny, sunshiny, shining, beaming, beamy; fulgid, glittering, rutilant; fulgent, effulgent, refulgent; luminous, luminescent, lumi-niferous, luciferous; sparkling, twinkling, flashing, gleaming, agleam; scintillating, scintillant, coruscating.
2. phosphorescent, glowing, aglow, white hot, can-dent; intensely hot, red hot, volcanic; ablaze, blazing, afire, on fire, fiery; aflame, in flames, flaming, con-flagrant, flaring; burning, parching, torrid, oppressively hot, Archaic, calid; heated, thermal, warming, calorific.
3. bright, brilliant, splendent, resplendent, splen-drous; radiant, dazzling, vivid, intense; shining, lucid, lucent, Archaic, relucent; lustrous, nitid, glossy, sheeny, sheenful, shiny; gleaming, glaring, glassy, polished, burnished.
4. brilliant, bright, intelligent, intellectual, cerebral, brainy; gifted, precocious, talented, apt; expert, proficient, accomplished, masterful; inventive, resourceful, ingenious; adroit, dexterous, skillful, deft, handy; lucid, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, discerning; quick, clever, alert, keen, sharp, aware; observant, clear-eyed, farsighted, sagacious, shrewd; astute, penetrating, acute, subtle; nimble-witted, keen-witted, sharp-witted, quick-witted; enlightened, enlightening, luminous.
5. excited, exhilarated, enlivened, inspired; animated, enthusiastic, Inf. psyched or psyched up, eager; zealous, ardent, vehement, impassioned, passionate; fervent, fervid, perfervid; stimulated, aroused, Inf. hot, intensely desirous.
incantation, n. 1. chant, chanting, invocation, conjuration, summoning; magic formula, hocus-pocus, mumbo-jumbo, magic word, abracadabra, open sesame; jinx, hex, adverse influence.
2. spell, charm, rune, Scot. cantrip, enchantment, bewitchment, bedevilment; trance, hypnosis, hypnotism, mesmerism; fascination, rapture.
3. magic, sorcery, witchcraft, witchery, wizardry, wonderworking; necromancy, thaumaturgy, theurgy; black magic, black art, voodoo, hoodoo, obiism or obeahism; deviltry or devilry, demonology, demon-olatry, diabolism; supernaturalness, shamanism, mysticism, spiritualism, occultness, psychomancy, fetishism; ritual, rite, apotropaism, magical ceremony, voo-dooism, exorcism.
4. wordiness, verbosity, prolixity, prolixness, verbiage, verbalism; diffuseness, profuseness, effusion, effusiveness, gushing; obfuscation, padding, redundancy, superfluous words, repetition.
incapability, n. 1. inability, incapacity, incapableness; incompetence, inefficiency, ineffectiveness, inefficacy; inadequacy, insufficiency, unproficiency; unfitness, ineptitude, ineptness, unqualification, disqualification, disability, unaptness.
2. impotence, powerlessness, forcelessness, im- puissance; helplessness, defenselessness, prostration, decrepitude, weakness, feebleness.
incapable, adj. 1. unable, incompetent, inefficient, ineffective, inefficacious; unproficient, inadequate, insufficient; unfit, unqualified, unfitted, unsuitable; inept, unapt, unskilled, unequal to, not up to, not up to par, not making the grade, Inf. not cutting the mustard, Inf. not up to snuff.
2. powerless, impotent, impuissant, unvirile, force less; helpless, defenseless, prostrate, on one's back, decrepit, feeble, weak.