Luminous

a.	1.
	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 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.

Adj.

1.

luminous - softly bright or radiant; "a house aglow with lights"; "glowing embers"; "lambent tongues of flame"; "the lucent moon"; "a sky luminous with stars" Synonyms: aglow, glowing, lambent, lucent

ablaze, acute, aglow, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, almighty, apprehensible, bathed with light, beamy, bespangled, blushing, boundless, bright and sunny, brightened, brilliant, burning, candescent, candlelit, changeless, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear as day, clear-cut, clear-eyed, coherent, comprehensible, connected, consistent, creating, creative, crisp, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, dazzling, defined, definite, direct, discerning, distinct, effulgent, enlightened, eternal, eternally the same, everlasting, explicit, express, fathomable, firelit, fluorescent, flushing, fulgent, gaslit, gleamy, glinting, glistening, glorious, good, graspable, hallowed, highest, holy, illuminant, illuminated, immortal, immutable, in a blaze, incandescent, incisive, infinite, intelligible, irradiate, irradiated, irradiative, just, keen, knowable, lambent, lamping, lamplit, lanternlit, light as day, lighted, lightened, limitless, limpid, lit, lit up, loud and clear, loving, lucent, lucid, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative, luminescent, luminiferous, luminificent, majestic, making, merciful, moonlit, numinous, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, orient, pellucid, penetrating, perceptive, percipient, permanent, perpetual, perspicacious, perspicuous, phosphorescent, plain, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, rutilant, rutilous, sacred, shaping, sharp, shimmering, shiny, simple, sovereign, spangled, sparkling, specific, star-spangled, star-studded, starbright, starlike, starlit, starry, straightforward, streaming, studded, suffused, sunlit, sunny, sunshiny, supreme, timeless, tinseled, translucent, transparent, transpicuous, ubiquitous, unambiguous, unbounded, unchanging, unconfused, undefined, understandable, unequivocal, univocal, unlimited, unmistakable, well-defined

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