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adjective

Luminous adj.

Shining; emitting or reflecting light; brilliant; bright; as, the is a luminous body; a luminous color. "Fire burneth wood, making it... luminous." "The mountains lift... their lofty and luminous heads."

Illuminated; full of light; bright; as, many candles made the room luminous. "Up the staircase moved a luminous space in the darkness."

Enlightened; intelligent; also, clear; intelligible; as, a luminous mind. " Luminous eloquence." " A luminous statement."

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.

Synonyms: Lucid; clear; shining; perspicuous.

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Etymology of 'Luminous'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Luminous" Quotes from Famous Books

... visions into colour! His Madonnas, their features suffused with candour and humility, bend with maternal grace hitherto unwitnessed, in loving contemplation of the Son, or—mothers in glory—they bow to receive the homage of the Redeemer. His saints ecstatically gaze at luminous celestial apparitions; his golden winged angels dance lightly beneath the throne of their Lord or sound merrily the most various instruments, singing: laudate Dominum..., laudate eum in sono tubae, laudate eum in psalterio et cithara, laudate eum in timpano et choro...; ...

— Fra Angelico • J. B. Supino

... luminous spot, saw suddenly beside a jet of red flame, as the heavy gun roared the welcome signal that all was well; and scarcely a half moment later a still heavier report called the perplexed and wearied party to the shore, where they found themselves ...

— Adrift in the Ice-Fields • Charles W. Hall

... could not remain suspended in midair for any length of time: the fall of the house at the northwest corner of Harrison and Second Streets must mark my fall. While I was biding my time, there came to me a lean, lithe stranger. I knew him for a poet by his unshorn locks and his luminous eyes, the pallor of his face and his exquisitely sensitive hands. As he looked about my eyrie with aesthetic glance, almost his first words were: "What a background for a novel!" He seemed to relish it all—the impending crag that might topple any day or hour; the modest ...

— In the Footprints of the Padres • Charles Warren Stoddard

... was on my face. Keen eyes, but they were luminous now—an emotion in them sweeping her. But outwardly ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 • Various

... denied. He stooped to Nellie, standing there before him, and kissed her on the cheek. Whether in this blended love and pain he was kissing Ellen or the girl, he did not know, but he saw how Clyde started and grew luminous, and what it meant ...

— Country Neighbors • Alice Brown

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