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What's The Definition Of Luminous?
[adj] softly bright or radiant; "a house aglow with lights"; "glowing embers"; "lambent tongues of flame"; "the lucent moon"; "a sky luminous with stars"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Luminous: aglow(p) | bright | glowing | lambent | lucent Related Terms | Find terms related to Luminous: ablaze | acute | aglow | alight | all-knowing | all-powerful | all-seeing | all-wise | almighty | apprehensible | bathed with light | beaming | beamy | bespangled | blushing | boundless | bright | bright and sunny | brightened | brilliant | burning | candescent | candlelit | changeless | clean-cut | clear | clear as crystal | clear as day | clear-cut | clear-eyed | coherent | comprehensible | connected | consistent | creating | creative | crisp | crystal | crystal-clear | crystalline | dazzling | defined | definite | direct | discerning | distinct | effulgent | enlightened | eternal | eternally the same | everlasting | explicit | express | fathomable | firelit | fluorescent | flushing | fulgent | gaslit | gleaming | gleamy | glinting | glistening | glorious | glowing | good | graspable | hallowed | highest | holy | illuminant | illuminated | immortal | immutable | in a blaze | incandescent | incisive | infinite | intelligible | irradiate | irradiated | irradiative | just | keen | knowable | lambent | lamping | lamplit | lanternlit | light as day | lighted | lightened | limitless | limpid | lit | lit up | loud and clear | loving | lucent | lucid | luciferous | lucific | luciform | luminant | luminative | luminescent | luminiferous | luminificent | lustrous | majestic | making | merciful | moonlit | numinous | omnipotent | omnipresent | omniscient | one | orient | pellucid | penetrating | perceptive | percipient | permanent | perpetual | perspicacious | perspicuous | phosphorescent | plain | radiant | refulgent | resplendent | rutilant | rutilous | sacred | shaping | sharp | shimmering | shining | shiny | simple | sovereign | spangled | sparkling | specific | starbright | starlike | starlit | starry | star-spangled | star-studded | straightforward | streaming | studded | suffused | sunlit | sunny | sunshiny | supreme | timeless | tinseled | translucent | transparent | transpicuous | ubiquitous | unambiguous | unbounded | unchanging | unconfused | undefined | understandable | unequivocal | univocal | unlimited | unmistakable | well-defined See Also | Luminous In Webster's Dictionary \Lu"mi*nous\, a. [L. luminosus, fr. lumen light: cf. F.
lumineux. See {Luminary}, {Illuminate}.]
1. Shining; emitting or reflecting light; brilliant; bright;
as, the is a luminous body; a luminous color.
Fire burneth wood, making it . . . luminous.
--Bacon.
The mountains lift . . . their lofty and luminous
heads. --Longfellow.
2. Illuminated; full of light; bright; as, many candles made
the room luminous.
Up the staircase moved a luminous space in the
darkness. --Longfellow.
3. Enlightened; intelligent; also, clear; intelligible; as, a
luminous mind. `` Luminous eloquence.'' --Macaulay. `` A
luminous statement.'' --Brougham.
{Luminous paint}, a paint made up with some phosphorescent
substance, as sulphide of calcium, which after exposure to
a strong light is luminous in the dark for a time.
Syn: Lucid; clear; shining; perspicuous. -- {Lu"mi*nous*ly},
adv. -- {Lu"mi*nous*ness}, n.
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