All 3 Uses of
luminous
in
The Hound of the Baskervilles
- It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light.†
Chpt 1 *
- They all agreed that it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral.†
Chpt 3
- This paste in the tin is no doubt the luminous mixture with which the creature was daubed.†
Chpt 14
Definitions:
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(1)
(luminous) glowing or shining
(also used metaphorically to describe beauty or intelligence) -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, luminous can mean beautiful, inspiring, or beautifully clear and understandable.