📖 Definitions of "Luminous"
adjective
- 1
Emitting light; glowing brightly.
- 2
Brightly illuminated.
🔄 Synonyms of "Luminous"
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💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Luminous"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| lucent | Emitting light; shining, luminous. |
| bright | Emitting much light; visually dazzling; luminous, lucent, radiant. |
| glowingverb | That glows or glow. |
| aglow | (sometimes figurative) glowing; radiant |
| lambent | Glowing or luminous, but lacking heat. |
| illuminating | (figuratively) Providing clarification or explanation; educational, revealing. |
| glownoun | (intransitive) To emit heat and light without a flame. |
| lighted | Filled with light; illuminated. |
| illuminated | Irradiated by light, lit. |
| shineverb | (intransitive, copulative) To emit or reflect light so as to glow. |
| lit | (slang) Drunk, intoxicated; under the influence of drugs or alcohol. |
| lightingnoun | The equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided. |
| flashlightnoun | (Canada, US, Philippines) A battery-powered hand-held light source. |
| flux | (uncommon) Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable. |
| lucid | Clear; easily understood. |
| optical | Of or relating to sight; visual. |
| visual | Related to or affecting the vision. |
| lightnoun | (physics, uncountable) Electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range visible to the human eye (about 400–750 nanometers): visible light. |
| lumennoun | (physics) In the International System of Units, the derived unit of luminous flux; the light that is emitted in a solid angle of one steradian from a source of one candela. Symbol: lm. |
| warningnoun | Something spoken or written that is intended to warn. |
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