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luminous

adj
/ˈluːmɪnəs/

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French lumineus, from Latin lūminōsus.

  1. derived from lūminōsus
  2. borrowed from lumineus

Definitions

  1. Emitting light

    Emitting light; glowing brightly; shining.

    • The moon, which had been slowly ascending, now shone through an open space between the trees; and the rippling waters of the brook gave back her light in luminous vibrations.
    • The bonfire in his heart made luminous the rose-tan in his cheek.
    • When approaching the Laughead household, she claimed to have previously met Charles Laughead and to recently have experienced a mystical dream in which a mysterious, luminous man rescued her from a flood (Williams 1954).

  2. Brightly illuminated.

  3. Clear

    Clear; enlightening; easy to understand.

    • a luminous explanation

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Derived

fast-evolving luminous transient, hyperluminous, luminosity, luminous energy, luminous flux, luminous intensity, luminously, luminousness, non-luminous, nonluminous, overluminous, radio-luminous, self-luminous, subluminous, superluminous, transient luminous event, ultraluminous, underluminous, unluminous

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at luminous. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01luminous02glowing03glows04glow05fire06carbon07transparent08clearly09clear10bright

A definitional loop anchored at luminous. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at luminous

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA