All 8 Uses of
luminous
in
The God of Small Things
- She had a delicate, chiseled face, black eyebrows angled like a soaring seagull's wings, a small straight nose and luminous, nutbrown skin.†
Chpt 2 *
- Luminous.†
Chpt 3
- When he saw the luminous woman with polished shoulders and the little boy, a shadow slipped across his face.†
Chpt 4
- Deep dimpled, luminous woman.†
Chpt 4
- It skirted the precipice of the deep pit from which laterite had been quarried, and was now a still lake with steep orange banks, the thick, viscous water covered with a luminous film of green scum.†
Chpt 10
- Her skin gray, wan, rubbed of its luminous sheen by the neon station light.†
Chpt 17
- Clouded eyes held clouded eyes in a steady gaze and a luminous woman opened herself to a luminous man.†
Chpt 21
- Clouded eyes held clouded eyes in a steady gaze and a luminous woman opened herself to a luminous man.†
Chpt 21
Definition:
-
(luminous) glowing or shining
(also used metaphorically to describe beauty or intelligence)