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US
/ˈɫumənəs/
]
[ UK /lˈuːmɪnəs/ ]
[ UK /lˈuːmɪnəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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softly bright or radiant
lambent tongues of flame
the lucent moon
a house aglow with lights
a sky luminous with stars
glowing embers
How To Use luminous In A Sentence
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- But if you want voluminous leaf production during summer, you may want to fertigate it occasionally. Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway
- Hospital case notes are more voluminous than traditional British general practice paper records, which are normally maintained on small cards, named after the politician who introduced them more than 90 years ago.
- There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.
- The luciferin-luciferase's reaction system may emit fluorescence, while the toxic substances will suppress the luminous intensity.
- Yet this masterful, luminous image places him in the august company of the renowned landscapist John Knox, with whom he worked on a series of views of Glasgow.
- The gallery is approached across a voluminous, rather airport-like atrium that also houses the company's canteen.
- It is a dazzling display of luminous atoms, a kind of pantheistic evocation. The French Impressionists (1860-1900)
- Space has to be carved out and carefully wrapped to create a luminous, inward-looking void, augmented by carefully framed views of the townscape.
- With its elegiac note of a civilisation falling apart while two old men continue their moves toward checkmate, the story is a luminous exploration of a culture that is both realisable yet tantalisingly intangible.