All 9 Uses

luminous
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Sole Survivor
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He checked the luminous dial of his watch.†
Chpt 2.7 *
The metropolis glowed, a luminous fungus festering along the coast.†
Chpt 2.7
He thought of the luminous Chardonnay in the three glasses on the counter in the Delmanns' kitchen.†
Chpt 3.9
It rustled the leaves on the branches of a nearby group of paper birches with trunks as luminous white as choirboys' surplices.†
Chpt 3.10
Or perhaps the 747 was already below the high overcast, affording him a ghostly panorama of onrushing Colorado landscape, faintly luminous in shades of gray from dusty pearl to charcoal, with the golden glow of Pueblo scintillant to the south.†
Chpt 3.10
Its eyes were luminous amber.†
Chpt 3.12
Her eyes were midnight-dark but luminous lakes, and Joe could not tell whether the secrets sunk in them would drown or buoy him.†
Chpt 4.14
The oil-black water glimmered with fluid arabesques of silver, as though schools of strange fish with luminous scales were swimming just beneath the surface.†
Chpt 4.15
Its glowering eyes were luminous and yellow.†
Chpt 4.17

Definitions:

(1) (luminous)
glowing or shining

(also used metaphorically to describe beauty or intelligence)
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Much more rarely, luminous can mean beautiful, inspiring, or beautifully clear and understandable.