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luminous

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of luminous

1 giving off or reflecting much light

The luminous moon bathed the snow-covered fields with a pearly glow.

Synonyms of luminous

beaming, bedazzling, bright, brilliant, candescent, clear, dazzling, effulgent, fulgent, glowing, incandescent, lambent, lucent, lucid, lustrous, radiant, refulgent, sheeny, shining, shiny, splendid

Words Related to luminous

ablaze, ardent, blazing, burning, combusting, fiery, flaming, red-hot

agleam, aglitter, blinding, coruscant, flaring, flashing, flickering, glancing, glaring, gleaming, glimmering, glinting, glistening, glistering, glittering, scintillant, scintillating, shimmering, shimmery, sparkling, sunny, twinkling, winking

burnished, polished, shined

superbright, ultrabright

Near Antonyms of luminous

blackened, dark, darkened, darkish, darkling, darksome, dimmed, dusky, gloomy, lightless, murky, obscure, obscured, pitch-black, pitch-dark, somber (or sombre), sunless, tenebrous, unlit

cloudy, shadowlike, shadowy, shady

gray (also grey), leaden, pale, palish

Antonyms of luminous

dim, dull, lackluster, unbright, unbrilliant

2 standing above others in rank, importance, or achievement

Some of the most luminous writers in the nation's history have graced that magazine's pages.

Synonyms of luminous

astral, bright, distinguished, eminent, illustrious, noble, notable, noteworthy, outstanding, preeminent, prestigious, redoubtable, signal, star, superior

Words Related to luminous

celebrated, exalted, famed, famous, glorious, honored, renowned, reputable

infamous, notorious

dominant, paramount, predominant

Near Antonyms of luminous

insignificant, minor, unimportant

average, inferior, mediocre

obscure, uncelebrated, unsung

3 not subject to misinterpretation or more than one interpretation

an author with a simple, luminous prose style that is free of affectation and pretention

Synonyms of luminous

apparent, bald, bald-faced, barefaced, broad, clear, clear-cut, crystal clear, decided, distinct, evident, lucid, manifest, nonambiguous, obvious, open-and-shut, palpable, patent, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, straightforward, transparent, unambiguous, unambivalent, unequivocal, unmistakable

Words Related to luminous

comprehendible, comprehensible, digestible, fathomable, graspable, intelligible, knowable, understandable

self-evident, self-explanatory

clean-cut, simple, tidy, uncomplicated

overt, undisguised

appreciable, perceptible, recognizable, sensible, tangible

discernible (also discernable), noticeable, observable, visible

black-and-white, explicit, trenchant, well-defined

clean, decipherable, fair, legible, readable

Near Antonyms of luminous

incomprehensible, indecipherable, unfathomable, unintelligible, unknowable

impalpable, imperceptible, inappreciable, indiscernible, insensible

cloudy, gauzy, gray (also grey), hazy, imprecise, indefinite, indeterminate, misty, murky, nebulous, noncommittal, sketchy, slippery, subtle, vague

illegible, undecipherable, unreadable

Antonyms of luminous

ambiguous, clouded, cryptic, dark, enigmatic (also enigmatical), equivocal, indistinct, mysterious, nonobvious, obfuscated, obscure, unapparent, unclarified, unclear, unclouded

Synonym Discussion of luminous

bright, brilliant, radiant, luminous, lustrous mean shining or glowing with light. bright implies emitting or reflecting a high degree of light. brilliant implies intense often sparkling brightness. radiant stresses the emission or seeming emission of rays of light. luminous implies emission of steady, suffused, glowing light by reflection or in surrounding darkness. lustrous stresses an even, rich light from a surface that reflects brightly without glittering.

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