Antonyms for luminous
ˈlu mə nəslu·mi·nous

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1. luminousadjective

   Synonyms:
   beamful

2. luminousadjective

   emitting light; glowing brightly

   Synonyms:
   beamful

3. luminousadjective

   brightly illuminated

   Synonyms:
   beamful

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1. luminous

   Antonyms:
   black, dark, dim, dismal, dusky, gloomy, murky, mysterious, obscure, opaque, sable, shadowy, shady, somber, swart, swarthy

   Synonyms:
   bright, brilliant, clear, crystalline, dazzling, gleaming, glowing, illumined, light, lucid, radiant, shining, transparent, white

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1. aglow(p), lambent, lucent, luminousadjective

   softly bright or radiant

   "a house aglow with lights"; "glowing embers"; "lambent tongues of flame"; "the lucent moon"; "a sky luminous with stars"

   Antonyms:
   dull

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1. luminousadjective

   Synonyms:
   bright

How to use luminous in a sentence?

1. Daniel Perley:

   This was an incredibly luminous event, brighter than almost any supernova we've ever seen before, the Cow also appeared and faded away very quickly : so quickly that existing supernova models can't properly explain The Cow. The Cow must be a new type of extremely energetic, explosive event.

2. George Lucas:

   Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

3. Ardis Whitman:

   The more grievous the world, the more we need to remember the luminous beauty at the center of life.

4. Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It:

   At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear." It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us." You can love completely without complete understanding.

5. Ari Vatanen:

   The first car came at two o'clock in the morning and time stopped there in my life, the first car was a white Volvo 544 and it came with the drum brakes red hot and it was kicking up the dust... that stuff absolutely took my breath away and my body stayed on that bank in that luminous summer night but my mind went with the car.

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