Synonyms:
aglow(p), lambent, lucent, luminous
Meaning: softly bright or radiant; "a house aglow with lights"; "glowing embers"; "lambent tongues of flame"; "the lucent moon"; "a sky luminous with stars"
Usage examples
Their luminous trail guided us to the Nautilus.
He looked at her and saw her eyes luminous with pity.
Vomited matter luminous in the dark, bile-stained or bloody, with garlic-like odour.
First, because light gives a name to the air, since by it the air becomes actually luminous.
She would see whether she could not walk out of the strange luminous dusk that surrounded her.
Her great brown eyes were very expressive and not altogether free from a sparkle of luminous heat.
Evening came, and, as on the previous day, I perceived no change in the luminous condition of the air.
Others, therefore, held that this luminous nebula continues in existence, but so closely attached to the sun as to be indistinguishable.
Then there was the sky, the wonderful, luminous, starless, moonless sky, and the empty blue deeps of the edge of it, between the meteor and the sea.
With this thought in his brain, he rode down from the luminous upper world of the moon and stars toward the nether world of drifting mists and black ravines.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Kira Buckland, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Rosary, License CC BY-SA 4.0