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Meanings of luminous in English
Synonyms
Examples for "radiant"
Examples for "radiant"
1
She came in now, radiant in smiles and in her gold combs.
2
For some reason, I could envision the mortuary home in radiant detail.
3
And now in the radiant moonlight the strange war council was resumed.
4
Its foreground is the emerald river; its drop-curtain the radiant cañon wall.
5
Slowly the dulness and heaviness melted from his face; it became radiant.
1
Her dark eyes were aglow; the roses still bloomed in her cheeks.
2
His cheeks were aflame; his body was aglow; his limbs were trembling.
3
They had set up temporary lights that set the whole place aglow.
4
The high window-panes were aglow with the reflection of the setting sun.
5
She came out of their daily meetings aglow with excitement and pleasure.
1
Benin bronzes in the hall; here were early Cycladics, lucent and featureless.
2
The lucent imagery and rich sound design make the verdant setting immediate.
3
His eyes, with their rather un settling lucent quality, were upon her.
4
One large, lucent eye opened slowly and gazed at her with hurt.
5
A little too much lucent syrup tinct with cinnamon, don't you think?
1
The lambent light revealed weather-smoothed rock formations to the left and right.
2
Each stalk had turned into a tall, straight flame of lambent rose.
3
They will be lambent, like a cat's, and you will see them.
4
Energistic power cloaked its hooked beak with a lambent red glow.
5
She faced the window, and the morning sun fell lambent over her profile.
Usage of luminous in English
1
The luminous spores of the cryptograms shone in the darkness with intensity.
2
The luminous eyes afforded the visible link; this I could not doubt.
3
Warm and sunny and smooth; the sea a luminous Mediterranean blue .
4
Her talent was luminous, British playwright Tom Stoppard said in a statement.
5
The ocean shines out yonder in all its luminous splendour of old.
6
A game of unmatchable quality, decorated with luminous brilliance on both sides.
7
He perceives in the air a luminous circle placed on horizontal wings.
8
Far below his armpit he saw the luminous flowering round the rock.
9
So is Flavin, once you leave the luminous aura of his work.
10
In the shade it was softly luminous, gleaming like a tender moon.
11
Bonus points for the luminous sheen it leaves behind on your cheeks.
12
Arrows, painted on the decks in luminous paint, pointed out the way.
13
In the moonlight she faced him, and her eyes looked oddly luminous.
14
The magnetite or luminous arc-lamp next appeared and met with considerable success.
15
At the foot of the radiant disk I glimpsed a luminous pool.
16
Ned Land and Conseil watched the luminous water through the half-open panels.
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Luminous through the time
Luminous across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Common