What does luminous mean?

luminous means "softly bright or radiant".

How many syllables are in luminous?

luminous has 3 syllables: lu-mi-nous. The stress falls on "lu". In IPA it is /ˈlumənəs/.

What is another word for luminous?

Close synonyms include aglow, lambent, lucent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is luminous a common word?

luminous is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with luminous?

1 word rhymes with luminous. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.

luminous — meaning, pronunciation and definition

adjective

1 senseA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
softly bright or radiant
“a house aglow with lights”
“glowing embers”
“lambent tongues of flame”
“the lucent moon”
“a sky luminous with stars”
Synonymsaglow lambent lucent
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