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[ adjective ] softly bright or radiant

Examples

"a house aglow with lights" "glowing embers" "lambent tongues of flame" "the lucent moon" "a sky luminous with stars"

Used in print

(Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy....)

Michelangelo found the rabbi in the room of study , a gentle old_man with a white beard and luminous grey eyes , robed in black gabardine with a skullcap on his head .

(Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)

They were climbing the hill in the night when the headlights abruptly probed solid blackness , became two parallel luminous tubes which broadened out into a faint mist of light and ended .

Related terms

bright

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