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luminous adjective [ ˈluːmɪnəs ]

• giving off light; bright or shining.
• "the luminous dial on his watch"
Similar: shining, bright, brilliant, radiant, dazzling, glowing, gleaming, coruscating, scintillating, lustrous, luminescent, phosphorescent, incandescent, vivid, intense, resplendent, lighted, lit, illuminated, lambent, lucent, refulgent, effulgent, candescent, luminiferous,
Opposite: dark,
Origin: late Middle English: from Old French lumineux or Latin luminosus, from lumen, lumin- ‘light’.


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