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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

... problem. Grays made of mixtures of pure colors, balancings of primaries and secondaries, that is, modifications of the tertiaries, are quite as quiet in effect and quite as beautiful as any, but they are also more luminous; they are live color instead of dead color. Grays made by mixing black with everything are the reverse, and should not be used except when you use black as a color (which it is in pigment), giving a certain color quality to the gray ...

— The Painter in Oil - A complete treatise on the principles and technique - necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors • Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst

... of yourself, while the real soul of you is active, planning, light. "I wanted thought like an edge of steel and desire like a flame." Eager with sympathy, you and your work are reflected from many angles. You have become luminous. ...

— A Preface to Politics • Walter Lippmann

... faded old rug, and with it a faint perfume of tobacco. Instantly the young girl's senses were transported as they had never been before to those far-off Southern battle-fields. She saw men lying in swamps, puffing their kindly pipes, drawing their blankets closer, canopied with the same luminous dusk that shone down upon her comfortable weakness. Her mind wandered amid these scenes till recalled to the present by the swinging of the garden-gate. She heard a firm, well-known tread crunching the gravel. ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 • Various

... on a cold February afternoon, bearing a small bag in her hand. She crossed Westminster Bridge on foot, just after dusk, and saw a luminous haze hanging over each well-lighted street as it withdrew into distance behind the nearer houses, showing its direction as a train of morning mist shows the course of a distant stream when the stream itself is hidden. The lights along the riverside towards Charing Cross sent an inverted palisade ...

— The Hand of Ethelberta • Thomas Hardy

... three o'clock in the morning. I did not look at my watch, as its luminous facings had faded away months before and I did not wish to disturb my companions by lighting a match. A sigh or a groan came from one part of the room or another, showing that our bombardment was troublesome ...

— Attack - An Infantry Subaltern's Impression of July 1st, 1916 • Edward G. D. Liveing

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