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Definition

glowing or shining

(also used metaphorically to describe beauty or intelligence)

Much more rarely, luminous can mean beautiful, inspiring, or beautifully clear and understandable.

The sky was luminous with stars.

luminous = shining

The snow was luminous from the moonlight.

luminous = glowing or shining

She gave a luminous performance.

luminous = shining

On two occasions I have observed the sea luminous at considerable depths beneath the surface.
Darwin, Charles -- The Voyage of the Beagle
The moon shed its light onto the wilderness as we walked to school. ... It made snow luminous.
David Almond -- Kit's Wilderness

luminous = glow or shine

I notice the moonlight on the chain-link fence, the way it turns even the ugliest pattern into a delicate, luminous web.
An Na -- A Step from Heaven

luminous = glowing or shining

(also used metaphorically to describe beauty or intelligence)

My eyes turn again and again to the luminous dial of my watch; the hands will not budge.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

luminous = glowing or shining

(also used metaphorically to describe beauty or intelligence)

He has the length and leanness and luminous pallor efface that El Greco gave to his saints.
Tennessee Williams -- A Streetcar Named Desire

luminous = glowing

Then her clouded face cleared suddenly with its luminous smile.
Grace MacGowan Cooke -- The Power and the Glory

luminous = shining or beautiful

The hydrangea bush—or snowball bush, as we called it—on our lawn glowed in the sunlight, and I stared at it. I had never really paid any attention to it before. Now it seemed suddenly luminous and alive.
Chaim Potok -- The Chosen

luminous = glowing or shining

(also used metaphorically to describe beauty or intelligence)

Out of a helicopter glided something that was not machine, not animal, not dead, not alive, glowing with a pale green luminosity.
Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451

luminosity = glow (emission of light)

And on the dresser David's daffodils, delicate as skin and almost luminous, collecting the light from the hall.
Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter

luminous = glowing or shining

Montag saw the luminous dial of his waterproof [watch].
Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451

luminous = glowing

luminous lollies for eating in bed at night.
Roald Dahl -- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

luminous = softly bright

...were glowing in the unnatural light of a faintly luminous and distinctly visible gaseous exhalation which hung about and enshrouded the mansion.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Fall of the House of Usher

luminous = glowing or shining

(also used metaphorically to describe beauty or intelligence)

Those big blue eyes and the luminous, infrequent smiles reminded her of someone she couldn't name.
Jane Yolen -- The Devils Arithmetic

luminous = shining (perhaps beautiful)

Most of them slept on deck and talked far into the night or hung over the ship's side watching the luminous dance of the foam thrown up by their bows.
C.S. Lewis -- The Voyage of the Dawn Trader

luminous = shining

Her bare skin looked luminous, and her face was slightly flushed.
Sara Shepard -- Pretty Little Liars

luminous = glowing (beautiful)

The people shouted as each new luminous paper bubble careened, caught fire, and fell.
Ernest Hemingway -- The Sun Also Rises

luminous = glowing or shining

(also used metaphorically to describe beauty or intelligence)

Ron threw the cloak back over them as the luminous eyes of Mrs. Norris came round the door.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

luminous = shining

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