Lustrous

Definition: Lustrous

Lustrous

Adjective

1. Made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow; "bright silver candlesticks"; "a burnished brass knocker"; "she brushed her hair until it fell in lustrous auburn waves"; "rows of shining glasses"; "shiny black patents".

2. Brilliant; "set a lustrous example for others to follow"; "lustrous actors of the time".

3. Reflecting light; "glistening bodies of swimmers"; "the horse's glossy coat"; "lustrous auburn hair"; "saw the moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet"; "shining white enamel".

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

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

Synonyms: Lustrous

Crosswords: Lustrous

But standing here among the people of Punxsutawney and basking in the warmth of their hearths and hearts, I couldn't imagine a better fate than a long and lustrous winter (Groundhog Day; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

Love of my life, let down your lustrous locks (The 10th Kingdom; writing credit: Simon Moore)

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Books

• Lustrous All Occasion Cards (reference)

• Red lustrous wheel-made ware (reference)

• Sutton Taylor: A Lustrous Art (reference)

• The Lustrous Trade: Material Culture and the History of Sculpture in England and Italy, C.1700-C.1860 (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Her form was complete, her skin had become white, her hair had grown lustrous, an unknown splendour was lighted up in her blue eyes

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Expression using "lustrous": lustrous carbon films. Additional references.

Containing "lustrous": non-lustrous glaze.

Albanian

me shkëlqim (brightly, glaringly, glossy, richly, shining, shiny, sleek), i shndritshëm (bright, brilliant, effulgent, glaring, glistening, lucent, shiny). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ممجد (exalted), ‏لامع (blazing, bright, brilliant, burnished, dazzling, flamboyant, flashing, glazed, gleaming, glimmering, glistering, glittering, glossed, glossy, golden, high, lambent, lucid, outstanding, polished, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, sheen, shining, shiny, showy, sleek, slick, sparkle, sparkling, star, staring), ‏زاهر (brilliant, luminous), ‏شهير (celebrated, distinguished, famed, great, illustrious, note, noted, prominent, public, renowned, shining), ‏براق (brilliant, flaming, glossy, incandescent, meretricious, opalescent, prismatic, radiant, sheeny, shining, shiny, specular, tawdriness). (various references)

Bulgarian 

гланциран (glazed, satin), знаменит (celebrated, cunning, famous, glorious, gone, great, illustrious, inconceivable, prominent, proud, reputed, rousing, terrific), лъскав (agleam, chatoyant, ganoid, glace, glazy, glossy, satiny, sheeny, shiny, sleek), блестящ (agleam, bright, brilliant, flaring, fulgent, garish, gay, glistening, imperial, lambent, lucent, lucid, luminous, oriental, pyrotechnic, refulgent, relucent, resplendent, shining, sparkling, splendent, splendid, splendiferous, superb, vivid). (various references)

Chinese 

煥 (brilliant), 燦 (bright, brilliant, glorious, resplendent), 瑛 , 发光泽. (various references)

Danish

glanskulstofhud (kish tracks, lustrous carbon films), film af glanskulstof (kish tracks, lustrous carbon films). (various references)

Dutch

glanzende koolstofhuid (kish tracks, lustrous carbon films). (various references)

Finnish

kiiltohiilikalvo (kish tracks, lustrous carbon films). (various references)

French

lustré, illustre, glorieux, chatoyant, brillant (lucid, lustre). (various references)

German

glänzend (brilliant, brilliantly, clinking, dazzling, effulgent, effulgently, gleaming, gleamy, glistening, glittering, glossily, glossing, glossy, ingenious, ingeniously, lustered, lustrously, marvelous, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, resplendently, sheeny, shinily, shining, shiny, sparkling, splendid, splendidly, vintage). (various references)

Greek 

στιλπνόσ (lucent, polished, shiny, sleek, splendent). (various references)

Hebrew 

מבריק (brilliant, glossy, glowing, shining, shiny, sparkling, spick and span, vivid, whizz), זו�"ר (brightness, brilliance, flaring, glamor, glamour, incandescent, lustre, magnificence, radiance, radiant, sheen, shine), בריק (gleaming, shining). (various references)

Hungarian

fénylő (coruscating, glistening, glittering, luminous, resplendent, shining, shiny), fényes (bright, glorious, glossy, illustrious, pompous, refulgent, satiny, sheeny, shining, shiny, sleek, sumptuous), csillogó (coruscating, glimmering, glistening, glittering, light, Orient, resplendent, shining, shiny, spangly, starry). (various references)

Indonesian

semarak (animation, efflugence, lively), nurani (illuminated, inner, pure), menggilap (shinning). (various references)

Italian

lustro (glory, gloss, glossy, luster, lustre, moist, prestige, sheen, shine, shining, shiny). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�'馬 (dark-colored horse with a lustrous coat). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

あおうま (dark-colored horse with a lustrous coat). (various references)

Manx

sollyssagh, soilsheanagh (beaming, brilliant, glistening, glowing, lit up, luminous, radiant, shiny, splendid, vivid). (various references)

Norwegian

skinnende. (various references)

Pig Latin

ustrouslay.(various references)

Portuguese

lustroso (beady, glace, glazed, glazy, glossy, sheeny, shiny, silken, silky, sleek, sleeky, slick, smooth, spick and span, splendent), brilhante (ablaze, agleam, bright, champion, clear, diamond, effulgent, flamboyant, flaming, fulgent, gay, glaring, glowing, lambent, light, lucent, lucid, luculent, luminous, orient, resplendent, sheeny, shining, shiny, sparkling, splendent, starry, top-hole, vivid), acetinado (glazed, glossy, satiny, sericeous, silky). (various references)

Romanian

lustruit (glazed, glossy, polished, sleek, varnish), lucitor (bright, expressive, flaming, shining, sparkling), lucios (bright, glossy, polished, shiny, sleek). (various references)

Russian 

глянцевый (glossy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sjajan (beaming, bright, brilliant, effulgent, fulgent, glace, glittering, glossal, glossy, gorgeous, luminous, polished, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, shining, shiny, spanking, splendent, splendid, splendiferous). (various references)

Spanish

lustroso (glossy, reflective). (various references)

Swedish

glänsande (refulgent, resplendent, shiny, splendid). (various references)

Thai

เป็นมันเงา, รุ่งโรจน์. (various references)

Turkish

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, luminous, meteoric, oriental, polished, pyrotechnic, pyrotechnical, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, sheeny, shining, shiny, sleek, sparkling, splendent, splendid, star, staring, starry, sunny, vivid). (various references)

Ukrainian

глянсуватий (enamellar, glassy, glazy), блискучий (brilliant, coruscating, crackajack, crackerjack, crackling, glossy, incandescent, lambent, luminous, nitid, oriental, polished, quicksilver, radiant, resplendent, sensational, shining, showy, signal, sparkling, splendent, splendid). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lộng lẫy (gallant, gorgeous, plush, princely, rich, royally, sheeny, splendent, splendid), láng sáng, xán lạn (sheeny), rực rỡ (fine, flamboyant, fulgent, gay, glorious, gorgeous, illuminant, palmy, refulgent, sheeny, splendid), huy ho� ng (princely, proud, proudly, refulgent, royal, royally, saturnian), chói lọi (aureate, dazzling, flamboyant, luminous, refulgent, resplendent, shining, vivid), bóng (polished, shade, shadow, shiny, silhouette). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "lustrous": lustrously, lustrousness, lustrousnesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "lustrous": semilustrous. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Lustrous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: illustris, Lastours, latroun, lustorol, Lustra, lustres. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: rousts, stours, tussor, tussur.

-3 letters: lotus, lours, louts, lusts, lusus, ousts, rotls, roust, routs, rusts, slots, slurs, sluts, solus, sorts, sorus, souls, sours, stour, sulus, tolus, torus, tours, truss.

-4 letters: loss, lost, lots, lour, lout, lust, orts, ours, oust, outs, rotl, rots, rout, rust, ruts, slot, slur, sols, sort, sots, soul, sour, sous.

+2 letters: blusterous, lustrously, stridulous.

+3 letters: cloudbursts, illustrious, strenuously, ultrasounds.

+4 letters: jurisconsult, lustrousness, multicourses, robustiously, salutiferous, scrupulosity, semilustrous, slaughterous, stridulously, tuberculoses, tuberculosis, ultraserious.

+5 letters: futurologists, illustriously, industriously, jurisconsults, rumbustiously, scrumptiously, stratocumulus, superovulates, tremulousness, troublousness.