Word Meanings - LUMINOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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;
Additional info about word: LUMINOUS
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.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LUMINOUS)
- Bright
- Shining
- brilliant
- burnished
- luminous
- lucid
- sparkling
- limpid
- clever
- happy
- witty
- joyous
- cheerful
- radiant
- Lucid
- bright
- resplendent
- Incident
- clear
- trans parent
- crystalline
- pellucid
- distinct
- intelligible
- rational
- perspicuous
- orderly
- lucent
- easily under
- stood
- Radiant
- Beaming
- lustrous
- glittering
- splendid
- shining
- glorious
- beauteous
- Resplendent
- Brilliant
- gorgeous
- flashing
- Vivid
- graphic
- lively
- animated
- stirring
- striking
- glowing
- sunny
- scintillant
Related words: (words related to LUMINOUS)
- UNDERDOER
One who underdoes; a shirk. - PARENTHETIC; PARENTHETICAL
1. Of the nature of a parenthesis; pertaining to, or expressed in, or as in, a parenthesis; as, a parenthetical clause; a parenthetic remark. A parenthetical observation of Moses himself. Hales. 2. Using or containing parentheses. - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - LIVELY
1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier - LUSTROUS
Bright; shining; luminous. " Good sparks and lustrous." Shak. -- Lus"trous*ly, adv. - UNDERSECRETARY
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury. - UNDERPLOT
1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison. - PARENTHESIS
One of the curved lines which inclose a parenthetic word or phrase. Note: Parenthesis, in technical grammar, is that part of a sentence which is inclosed within the recognized sign; but many phrases and sentences which are punctuated by commas - UNDERNICENESS
A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety. - UNDERDOLVEN
p. p. of Underdelve. - UNDERSOIL
The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil. - BEAMFUL
Beamy; radiant. - SHINTIYAN; SHINTYAN
A kind of wide loose drawers or trousers worn by women in Mohammedan countries. - DISTINCTNESS
1. The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things. The soul's . . . distinctness from the body. Cudworth. 2. Nice discrimination; hence, clearness; precision; as, he stated - RATIONALIZATION
The act or process of rationalizing. - SPLENDIDIOUS
Splendid. - TRANSCEND
1. To climb; to mount. 2. To be transcendent; to excel. - UNDERPROP
To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton. - UNDERNIME
1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman. - TRANSMUTATIONIST
One who believes in the transmutation of metals or of species. - SPILLET FISHING; SPILLIARD FISHING
A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing. - DILUCIDATION
The act of making clear. Boyle. - PETROGRAPHIC; PETROGRAPHICAL
Pertaining to petrography. - STEREOGRAPHIC; STEREOGRAPHICAL
Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth. Stereographic projection , a method of representing the sphere in which the center of projection is taken in the surface of the - BRIGHT
See I - PENTAGRAPHIC; PENTAGRAPHICAL
Pantographic. See Pantograph. - PHOTOGRAPHIC; PHOTOGRAPHICAL
Of or pertaining to photography; obtained by photography; used ib photography; as a photographic picture; a photographic camera. -- Pho`to*graph"ic*al*ly, adv. Photographic printing, the process of obtaining pictures, as on chemically - PLUNDERER
One who plunders or pillages.