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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
ablaze, acute, aglow, alight, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, almighty, apprehensible, bathed with light, beaming, beamy, bespangled, blushing, boundless, bright, bright and sunny, brightened, brilliant, burning, candescent, candlelit, changeless, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear as day, clear-cut, clear-eyed, coherent, comprehensible, connected, consistent, creating, creative, crisp, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, dazzling, defined, definite, direct, discerning, distinct, effulgent, enlightened, eternal, eternally the same, everlasting, explicit, express, fathomable, firelit, fluorescent, flushing, fulgent, gaslit, gleaming, gleamy, glinting, glistening, glorious, glowing, good, graspable, hallowed, highest, holy, illuminant, illuminated, immortal, immutable, in a blaze, incandescent, incisive, infinite, intelligible, irradiate, irradiated, irradiative, just, keen, knowable, lambent, lamping, lamplit, lanternlit, light as day, lighted, lightened, limitless, limpid, lit, lit up, loud and clear, loving, lucent, lucid, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative, luminescent, luminiferous, luminificent, lustrous, majestic, making, merciful, moonlit, numinous, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, orient, pellucid, penetrating, perceptive, percipient, permanent, perpetual, perspicacious, perspicuous, phosphorescent, plain, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, rutilant, rutilous, sacred, shaping, sharp, shimmering, shining, shiny, simple, sovereign, spangled, sparkling, specific, star-spangled, star-studded, starbright, starlike, starlit, starry, straightforward, streaming, studded, suffused, sunlit, sunny, sunshiny, supreme, timeless, tinseled, translucent, transparent, transpicuous, ubiquitous, unambiguous, unbounded, unchanging, unconfused, undefined, understandable, unequivocal, univocal, unlimited, unmistakable, well-defined
Dictionary Results for luminous:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
luminous
    adj 1: softly bright or radiant; "a house aglow with lights";
           "glowing embers"; "lambent tongues of flame"; "the lucent
           moon"; "a sky luminous with stars" [syn: aglow(p),
           lambent, lucent, luminous]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Luminous \Lu"mi*nous\, a. [L. luminosus, fr. lumen light: cf. F.
   lumineux. See Luminary, Illuminate.]
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   1. Shining; emitting or reflecting light; brilliant; bright;
      as, the is a luminous body; a luminous color.
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            Fire burneth wood, making it . . . luminous.
                                                  --Bacon.
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            The mountains lift . . . their lofty and luminous
            heads.                                --Longfellow.
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   2. Illuminated; full of light; bright; as, many candles made
      the room luminous.
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            Up the staircase moved a luminous space in the
            darkness.                             --Longfellow.
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   3. Enlightened; intelligent; also, clear; intelligible; as, a
      luminous mind. " Luminous eloquence." --Macaulay. " A
      luminous statement." --Brougham.
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   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.
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   Syn: Lucid; clear; shining; perspicuous.
        [1913 Webster] -- Lu"mi*nous*ly, adv. --
        Lu"mi*nous*ness, n.
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