The Collaborative International Dictionary
Luminous \Lu"mi*nous\, a. [L. luminosus, fr. lumen light: cf. F. lumineux. See Luminary, Illuminate.]
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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.
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Illuminated; full of light; bright; as, many candles made the room luminous.
Up the staircase moved a luminous space in the darkness.
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Enlightened; intelligent; also, clear; intelligible; as, a luminous mind. `` Luminous eloquence.''
--Macaulay. `` A luminous statement.''
--Brougham.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.
Syn: Lucid; clear; shining; perspicuous. [1913 Webster] -- Lu"mi*nous*ly, adv. -- Lu"mi*nous*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a luminous manner, brightly, glowingly.
Usage examples of "luminously".
Mulbridge the degree of relief which can come only from an exactly significant and luminously exegetic word.
Taak hitched up his walking britches, gathered in his wide shirt sleeves and folded himself decorously into a sitting position at the side of the large circular pool of gently steaming and luminously blue liquid that his uncle floated within.
The good Archduchess luminously holds That in this weighty question you regard The Empire.
Moreover, we have all now seen for ourselves how very small is our heaven-born earth, and how perilous our position on the surface of its whirling, luminously beautiful orb.
As each of the three dangling arms of the machine plunged down, there was a clank and then a roaring, and out of the top of the vertical cylinder came pouring this incandescent substance that lit the place, and ran over as milk runs over a boiling pot, and dripped luminously into a tank of light below.
He touched her gently, the tips of his fingers trailing almost ticklingly lightly down her side, his gaze luminously hot as his eyes followed his hand.