Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com

Day-Glo

American  
[day-gloh] / ˈdeɪˌgloʊ /
Trademark.
  1. a brand of pigments and other products that exhibit fluorescence in daylight.


Day-Glo British  

noun

    1. a brand of fluorescent colouring materials, as of paint

    2. ( as modifier )

      Day-Glo colours

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

But TV had never seen anything quite like the Krofft shows, with its Day-Glo aesthetic, crazy conceptions and combination of puppets, costume puppets and costumed human characters into a half-hour comedy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026

ITV's gamble on the new format turned into a Day-Glo phenomenon and became, the childhood gymnastics champion says proudly, "a Saturday-night ritual".

From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2024

Still, none of his films could match the ubiquity of the music videos he made in the 1980s, capturing the era’s Day-Glo look and Pop Art sensibility as MTV reshaped the pop landscape.

From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2023

Your little ones might not catch the spiritual drift of Lolita Chakrabarti’s workmanlike script, but they’ll delight in the Ark’s worth of Day-Glo fish, diaphanous birds and lifelike quadrupeds.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2023

Sing of the weird smell the typewriter gave off, like WD-40 and salami, and of the Day-Glo flower decal the last person who’d used it had applied, and of the broken F key, which stuck.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

Get a word

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Dictionary.com's Learning Companion

Go beyond just looking up words.
Remember them forever with VocabTrainer.

Start training