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luminous
What does luminous mean?
luminous (adjective): softly bright or radiant.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use luminous in a sentence?
- They all agreed that it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. (Tatoeba sentence #6606483 by Hybrid, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce luminous?
/ˈlumənəs/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does luminous come from?
Borrowed from Middle French lumineus, from Latin lūminōsus.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to luminous
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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aggressive; antagonistic
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of surpassing excellence
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softly bright or radiant
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capable of being changed
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