Luminous

Definition: Luminous

Luminous

Adjective

1. Softly bright or radiant; "a house aglow with lights"; "glowing embers"; "lambent tongues of flame"; "the lucent moon"; "a sky luminous with stars".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "luminous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Luminous \Lu"mi*nous\, adjective. [Latin expression luminosus, from lumen light: compare to the French expression lumineux. See Luminary, Illuminate.]. (references)

Aerospace

Mining

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Synonyms: Luminous

Intelligibility

Adjective: intelligible; clear, clear as day, clear as noonday; lucid; perspicuous, transpicuous; luminous, transparent.

Crosswords: Luminous

Books

• A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (reference)

• Color and Light: Luminous Atmospheres for Painted Rooms (reference)

• Luminous Animals and Other Drawings (reference)

• Luminous Mind: The Way of the Buddha (reference)

• Mandala: Luminous Symbols for Healing (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Luminous Motion (reference)

• Odyssey: The Mind's Eye Presents Luminous Visions (reference)

• Tangerine Dream: Luminous Visions (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Luminous Ragas (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have identified what may be the most luminous star ... Credit: NASA.

[Incidence of cancer among luminous watch dial painters]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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Marius could hardly discern her through the luminous vapour which suddenly spread over his eyes

The front of the gray, paintless house, facing the west, was luminous as the moon is.

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Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expressions using "luminous": be luminous ♦ coefficient of luminous intensity ♦ lower hemispherical luminous flux ♦ luminous box ♦ luminous ceiling ♦ luminous element ♦ luminous energy ♦ luminous flux ♦ luminous flux intensity ♦ luminous flux unit ♦ luminous intensity ♦ luminous intensity unit ♦ Luminous paint ♦ luminous pillar ♦ luminous range ♦ luminous tail ♦ luminous train ♦ luminous watch ♦ upper hemispherical luminous flux. Additional references.

Ending with "luminous": Self-luminous.

Albanian

që shkëlqen, ndriçues (electrician, illuminant, illuminating, illuminative, radiant), i shkëlqyeshëm (de luxe, fulgent, gilded, glistening, grand, magnificent, Orient, refulgent, resplendent, slick, sparkling), i qartë (apparent, articulate, candid, clear, clear-cut, definite, distinct, evident, explicit, express, fair, formal, Frank, in focus, legible, limpid, lucid, manifest, neat, obvious, open and shut, palpable, patent, perspicuous, plain, readable, self evident, serene, simple, tangible, unambiguous, unequivocal, visible, well-defined, well-marked). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مستنير, ‏مضىء (illuminating, radiant, shining), ‏مشرق (agleam, beaming, beamy, bright, brilliant, clear, radiant, shining, shiny, splendid, vivid), ‏نير (bright, lucid, yoke), ‏نوراني, ‏واضح (apparent, bold, broad, clear, conspicuous, decided, definite, elucidative, evident, explicit, express, frank, intelligible, legible, limpid, lucid, manifest, marked, obvious, outspoken, palpable, patent, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, plump, pointed, pronounced, punctual, purposely, seeming, sharp, specific, transparent, trenchant, visible), ‏زاهر (brilliant, lustrous), ‏ذكي (acute, agile, astute, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, cute, dashing, fox, ingenious, intelligent, knowledgeable, natty, penetrating, quick, sagacious, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, wise, witty). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ясен (articulate, ash, ash-tree, bright, clean-cut, clear, coherent, crystal, distinct, limpid, lucid, manifest, matter of course, neat, obvious, pellucid, perceivable, perceptible, perspicuous, plain, readable, robust, serene, sharp, silver, silvery, Square, straight, straightaway, straightforward, tangible, transparent, unambiguous, unshadowed, vivid), светлинен (illuminating, illuminative), сияен (auric, bright, effulgent, radiant, resplendent), разбираем (apprehensible, cogitable, comprehensible, intelligent, intelligible, lucid, pellucid, plain, scrutable, straightforward, understandable), осветляващ, на светлина, лъчист (effulgent, irradiant, radial, radiant, radiate), луминесцентен, блестящ (agleam, bright, brilliant, flaring, fulgent, garish, gay, glistening, imperial, lambent, lucent, lucid, lustrous, oriental, pyrotechnic, refulgent, relucent, resplendent, shining, sparkling, splendent, splendid, splendiferous, superb, vivid). (various references)

Chinese 

炳 (bright, brilliant), 爍 (bright), 明淨 (bright and clean), 光亮 (luminance). (various references)

Czech

svítivý, prùzraèný (clear, lucid, pellucid). (various references)

Danish

lysrækkevidde (luminous range), luminiscerende maling (luminous paint), luminophor (luminous pigment), lysende element (luminous element), lysende flaad (luminous float), lysende loft (luminous ceiling), lyskilde (lamp, luminous source), lysraekkevidde (luminous range), lysstrøm (light output, lumen output, luminous flux), lysende maling (luminous paint), specifik lysstroem (illuminance, luminous flux intensity), maanesoejle (light pillar, luminous pillar, moon pillar, sun pillar), øvre hemisfæriske lysstrøm (upper hemispherical flux, upper hemispherical luminous flux), nedre hemisfæriske lysstrøm (lower hemispherical flux, lower hemispherical luminous flux), refleksionskoefficient (coefficient of luminous intensity, reflectance, reflection factor), selvlysende urskive (luminous dial), skelet-centrum-sekundviser med paanittet roer og lysfarve (riveted cannon luminous skeleton centre second hand), solsoejle (light pillar, luminous pillar, moon pillar, sun pillar), gul flamme (diffusion flame, luminous flame, yellow flame), diffusionsflamme (diffusion flame, luminous flame, yellow flame), CIL (coefficient of luminous intensity). (various references)

Dutch

lichtopbrengst (light output, lumen output, luminous flux), lichtbak (headlight), lichtbron (luminous source), lichtdosis (luminous dose), lichtgevend vermogen (luminous power), lichtgevende dobber (luminous float), lichtgevende verf (luminescent pigment, luminous paint), lichtgevende wijzerplaat (luminous dial), lichtpigment (luminous pigment), lichtplafond (luminous ceiling), lichtstroom (light output, lumen output, luminous flux), lichtvlek (bright spot, light spot, luminous spot, spot), LSC (coefficient of luminous intensity), luminantie (brightness, illuminance, luminance, luminous flux intensity), lichtsterktecoëfficient (coefficient of luminous intensity), lichtgevende vlam (diffusion flame, luminous flame, yellow flame), onder-hemisferische lichtstroom (lower hemispherical flux, lower hemispherical luminous flux), gloeilichaam (luminous element), helderheid (cleanliness, purity), I (luminous intensity), intensiteit (intensity), signaalkleur (luminous colour), oplichtende kleur,lichtgevende kleur (luminous colour), boven-hemisferische lichtstroom (upper hemispherical flux, upper hemispherical luminous flux), zuil (column, pillar), optische dracht (luminous range). (various references)

Farsi 

فروزان (Ablaze), نورانی , تابان (Agleam, Aglow, Bright, Brilliant, Hot, Light, Perfervid, Shiner), روشنی بخش , درخشان (Ablaze, Bright, Illustrious, Lucid, Phosphorescent, Shiner, Shiny, Starry, Stellar). (various references)

Finnish

valoisa (clear, light, lighted, positive), valaiseva (elucidating, illustrative), itsevalaiseva. (various references)

French

lumineux (lucent). (various references)

German

leuchtend (bright, flaming, lucent, luminescent, luminously, radiant, shining, vivid). (various references)

Greek 

φωσφορίζων (phosphorescent), φωτεινόσ (light, luminiferous). (various references)

Hebrew 

זורח (agleam, fluorescent, lucid, luminescent, resplendent). (various references)

Hungarian

világító (illuminant, illuminating, illuminative, lantern, self-luminous), világos (as clear as daylight, as easy as falling off a log, bright, broad, clear, clear-cut, crystal clear, distinct, explicit, it is clear that, lager, legible, light, lightning-like, lucid, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, self-evident, simple, that is easy to see, transparent, white), ragyogó (agleam, beamy, blazing, bodacious, bright, brilliant, coruscating, dazzling, effulgent, fulgent, glaring, glistening, glittering, glorious, glowing, gorgeous, incandescent, irradiant, light, lucent, luminescent, lurid, lustrous, polished, radiant, resplendent, royal, sheeny, shining, shiny, splendid, starry, sunny, top-hole), kivilágított (floodlit). (various references)

Indonesian

bercahaya (alight, efflugent, radiant, shine). (various references)

Italian

luminoso (bright, brilliant, clear, light), squillante (bright, Clarion, lucid, sharp, shrill), fulgente (bright, effulgent, fulgent, lucent, shining). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

発光植物 (luminous plant), 発光体 (luminous body), 発光動物 (luminous animal), 発光塗料 (luminous paint), 明らむ (to become luminous at dawn), 光蘚 (luminous moss), 光物 (any bright metal, luminous body like a shooting star, sliced fish with the silver skin left on), 光点 (a luminous point), 光束 (luminous flux), 光体 (a luminous body), 光り物 (any bright metal, luminous body like a shooting star, sliced fish with the silver skin left on), 夜目にも明るい (luminous in the dark), 夜光時計 (luminous watch), 夜光塗料 (luminous paint). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひかりごけ (luminous moss), ひかりもの (any bright metal, luminous body like a shooting star, sliced fish with the silver skin left on), こうたい (a luminous body, alternation, antibody, backspace, change, exchange, relay, relief, retreat, rise and fall, shift), こうそく (best student, block, high gear, high speed, infarction, leading disciple, luminous flux, restraint, restriction, school regulations, speed of light, stoppage, tightness), こうてん (a luminous point, a posteriori, changing for the better, fine weather, heaven, high score, Japanese classics, point of intersection, posteriority, providence, revolution, stormy weather), あからむ (to become luminous at dawn, to become red, to blush, to redden), やこうどけい (luminous watch), やこうとりょう (luminous paint), よめにもあかるい (luminous in the dark), はっこうたい (luminous body), はっこうしょくぶつ (luminous plant), はっこうどうぶつ (luminous animal), はっこうとりょう (luminous paint). (various references)

Korean 

빛난 (Radiant). (various references)

Manx

sollysagh, soilsheanagh (beaming, brilliant, glistening, glowing, lit up, lustrous, radiant, shiny, splendid, vivid), lossanagh (aglow, auroral, blazing, bright, flaming, flaring, genial, impassioned, inflamed, inflammable, phosphorescent, varnish). (various references)

Norwegian

selvlysende. (various references)

Pig Latin

uminouslay.(various references)

Portuguese

luminoso (auroral, bright, clear, enlightening, illuminating, illuminative, light, lightsome, lucent, lucid, self-luminous), vivo (above-ground, active, acute, adroit, agile, alert, alive, argute, bobbish, bouncing, brainy, breezy, bright, brisk, buoyant, chirpy, clear-sighted, clinking, coltish, cork, corky, crisp, dapper, diagram, fervent, frisky, gaudy, gay, graphic, graphical, hasty, hurry, intense, juicy, keen, kittenish, knowing, light, lightsome, live, lively, living, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, nimble, nippy, parky, perky, pert, picturesque, poignant, quick, racy, rattling, resilient, shrewd, smart, spanking, speaking, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, subtil, subtile, subtle, swift, swift-handed, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, watchful, zippy), resplandecente (blazing, bright, flaring, fulgent, glorious, lucid, refulgent, resplendent, reverberant, reverberating), brilhante (ablaze, agleam, bright, champion, clear, diamond, effulgent, flamboyant, flaming, fulgent, gay, glaring, glowing, lambent, light, lucent, lucid, luculent, lustrous, orient, resplendent, sheeny, shining, shiny, sparkling, splendent, starry, top-hole, vivid). (various references)

Romanian

luminos (bright, brilliant, candent, cheerful, clear, glorious, glowing, happy, light, lightsome, living, lucent, lucid, serene), luminat (alight, enlightened, illumination, lighted, lightsome, lit), limpede (avowedly, bright, clear, crystal, definite, distinct, evident, expressly, fair, honest, lightsome, limpid, lucid, manifest, manifestly, nakedly, obvious, overt, patently, perspicuous, perspicuously, plain, precise, pure, serene, sheer, sure), strãlucitor (ablaze, bright, brilliant, effulgent, flaming, flash, flashing, flashy, fresh, fulgent, gorgeous, irradiant, luminously, radiant, refulgent, relucent, resplendent, shining, shiny, splendid, starry, vivid), strãlucit (bright, brilliant, brilliantly, gorgeous, illustrious), plin de luminã, inteligent (apprehensive, argute, brainy, bright, clever, comprehensive, cute, intelligent, keen, lively, neat, nimbly, politic, sagacious, sage, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, understanding), incandescent (candent, glowing, incandescent, red-hot, white hot), fosforescent (phosphorescent, phosphorescently), desluşit (clear, distinct, distinctly, distinguishable, evident, intelligible, resolvedly), clar (apparent, apparently, articulate, banner, bright, broad, clean, clear, clear-cut, clearly, comprehensible, decided, definite, distinct, distinctly, evident, explicit, express, fair, flat, formal, Frank, incisive, legible, level headed, lightsome, limpid, lucid, manifest, marked, obvious, obviously, palpable, patently, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, plainly, precise, pure, serene, simple, sound, tangible, terse, unequivocal, unmistakable). (various references)

Russian 

светящийся (alight, candescent, lucent, luminescent, phosphorescent, radiant), блестящий (brilliant, glistening, glittery, glitzy, glossy, lambent, resplendent, sheeny, shining, shiny, sparkly, splendent, splendorous), проливающий свет (elucidative). (various references)

Scottish

sugan , corra-shugain (the reflection of rays of light from any moving luminous body from the roof or wall of a house). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

svetlosni (light), svetao (bright, light, lucent, orient, shiny), sjajan (beaming, bright, brilliant, effulgent, fulgent, glace, glittering, glossal, glossy, gorgeous, lustrous, polished, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, shining, shiny, spanking, splendent, splendid, splendiferous), koji zrači, blistav (agleam, fulgent, glaring, glistening, glittering, resplendent, shining, shiny, sparkling, splendent). (various references)

Spanish

luminoso (bright, lighting, lucent, shining). (various references)

Swedish

lysande (bright, brilliant, glorious, glowing, illustrious, lambent, lucid, pageant, shining, vibrant), ljus-, ljus (blond, bright, candela, candle, candlepower, clear, fair, fair-haired, gay, glim, light, lights, lightsome, lucid, luminary, pale), upplysande (explanatory, informative, informatory, instructional, instructive), tydlig (apparent, articulate, clear, direct, distinct, distinguishable, emphatic, evident, explicit, express, fair, legible, manifest, marked, obvious, patent, perspicuous, plain, pronounced, sharp, simple, unmistakable, visible), strålande (beaming, brilliant, effulgent, fulgent, irradiant, resplendent, superlative, topping), självlysande, klar (bright, clear, clear-cut, distinct, explicit, limpid, liquid, lucid, obvious, patent, perspicuous, plain, ready, set, sharp, Square, undoubted). (various references)

Thai

เปล่งแสง (irradiate, luminiferous), เข้าใจง่าย, สว่าง (light, lucid), หลักแหลม (keen, shrewd). (various references)

Turkish

zeki (apt, as fresh as paint, astute, brainy, bright, brilliant, clear, clever, cute, discerning, ingenious, intellectual, intelligent, keen, keen-witted, longheaded, neat, nifty, nimble-witted, penetrating, penetrative, perceptional, perspicacious, quick of comprehension, quick on the trigger, quick-witted, sapient, sharp, sharp-witted, shrewd, smart, sparkling, spiritual, subtile, subtle, understanding), parlak (aglow, ardent, bright, brightly, brilliant, clear, dazzling, effulgent, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flashily, flashy, fulgent, fulgurant, glace, glittering, glossy, glowing, gorgeous, illuminant, incandescent, irradiant, jazzy, lambent, live, lively, loud, lucent, luminescent, lustrous, meteoric, oriental, polished, pyrotechnic, pyrotechnical, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, sheeny, shining, shiny, sleek, sparkling, splendent, splendid, star, staring, starry, sunny, vivid), aydınlık (air shaft, airway, bright, brightly, clear, daylight, enlightenment, high speed, illumination, light, light-well, radiance, skylight, sunlit, sunny), açık (aboveground, apparent, articulate, avowed, bare, blank, broad, candid, categorical, clean-cut, clear, clear-cut, cloudless, confessed, decided, declared, decollete, deficiency, deficient, deficient amount, deficit, definite, definitive, direct, distinct, downright, evident, expansive, explicit, exposed, express, expressly, fair, forthright, free, gaping, hospitable, in blank, light, loose, lucent, lucid, obvious, open, open air, open ended, outdoor, outright, overt, pale, patent, perspicuous, plain, point blank, precise, raw, revealing, round, serene, shadowless, shirt-sleeve, shortage, shortfall, spread, Square, straightforward, swinging, translucent, unambiguous, unashamed, unclouded, uncomplicated, unconcealed, uncovered, uncrossed, undisguised, unequivocal, unlocked, unmistakable, unobstructed, unprotected, unsealed, upfront, vacant, visible, well-marked, wide open, wishywashy). (various references)

Ukrainian

світний, освічений (accomplished, cultured, educated, enlightened, informed, literate), блискучий (brilliant, coruscating, crackajack, crackerjack, crackling, glossy, incandescent, lambent, lustrous, nitid, oriental, polished, quicksilver, radiant, resplendent, sensational, shining, showy, signal, sparkling, splendent, splendid). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sáng chói (bright, brilliant, dazzling, glaring, glaringly, glary, irradiant, lucent, radiant), sáng (bright, shining, shiny), rực rỡ rõ ràng, minh xác, chói lọi (aureate, dazzling, flamboyant, lustrous, refulgent, resplendent, shining, vivid). (various references)

Welsh

cannaid (bright, white). (various references)

luminosus. (various references)

raocah. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "luminous": luminously, luminousness, luminousnesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "luminous": aluminous, nonluminous, voluminous. (additional references)

Words containing "luminous": voluminously, voluminousness, voluminousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Luminous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Blumenau, illuminous, limenios, luminist, Lumino, luminose, muminous, ulginosum. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: moulins.

-2 letters: insoul, linums, moulin, muslin.

-3 letters: limns, limos, linos, linum, lions, loins, louis, milos, minus, moils, munis, muons, noils, onium, solum.

-4 letters: ions, limn, limo, lino, lins, lion, loin, lums, milo, mils, miso, moil, mols, mons, muni, muns, muon, nils, nims, noil, noms, nous, oils, onus, silo, slim, slum, soil, soli, soul, sulu.

+1 letter: aluminous, inoculums, sulfonium.

+2 letters: albuminous, botulinums, calumnious, leguminous, luminously, mutinously, plutoniums, sulfoniums, voluminous.

+3 letters: cumulations, nonluminous, outmuscling, slumgullion, unanimously, unmalicious, unmelodious.

+4 letters: calumniously, contumelious, cumulonimbus, luminiferous, luminousness, micronucleus, mucilaginous, simultaneous, slumgullions, voluminously.

+5 letters: accumulations, impecuniously, mountainously, multitudinous, nonleguminous, pusillanimous, unambiguously, uncustomarily, unmaliciously.