Synonyms 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

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

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

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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. illuminate

   Submitted by anonymous on October 5, 2020  

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1. luminousadjective

   Synonyms:
   BRIGHT, shining, radiant

2. luminousadjective

   Synonyms:
   lucid, clear, perspicuous

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1. luminousadjective

   Synonyms:
   bright

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1. List of paraphrases for "luminous":

   light, lumineux, bright, illuminated, glowing, luminoso

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1. 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.

2. Andrea Dupree:

   All stars are losing material to the interstellar medium, and we don't know how this material is lost, we know that other hotter luminous stars lose material and it quickly turns to dust making the star appear much fainter. But in over a century-and-a-half, this has not happened to Betelgeuse. It's very unique.

3. Theophile Gautier:

   Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!

4. George Lucas:

   Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

5. Ardis Whitman:

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