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lustrous
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective lustrous has 3 senses
- lustrous(s = adj.all) bright, burnished, shining, shiny - made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow; "bright silver candlesticks"; "a burnished brass knocker"; "she brushed her hair until it fell in lustrous auburn waves"; "rows of shining glasses"; "shiny black patents"
- lustrous(s = adj.all) Array - brilliant; "set a lustrous example for others to follow"; "lustrous actors of the time"
- lustrous(s = adj.all) glistening, glossy, sheeny, shining, shiny - reflecting light; "glistening bodies of swimmers"; "the horse's glossy coat"; "lustrous auburn hair"; "saw the moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet"; "shining white enamel" Derived form noun lustre3
CIDE DICTIONARY
lustrous, a. [Cf. F. lustreux. See 3d Luster.].
Bright; shining; luminous. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
lustrous
aglow, beaming, beamy, blushing, bright, bright and sunny, brilliant, burning, burnished, candescent, charismatic, effulgent, flushing, fulgent, glace, glamorous, glassy, gleaming, gleamy, glimmering, glinting, glistening, glorious, glossy, glowing, illuminant, illustrious, incandescent, irradiative, lambent, lamping, light as day, lucent, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative, luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, magic, numinous, orient, polished, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, rutilant, rutilous, sheeny, shined, shining, shiny, sparkling, splendent, splendid, splendorous, splendrous, starbright, starlike, starry, streaming, suffused, sunny, sunshinyROGET THESAURUS
lustrous
Light
N light, ray, beam, stream, gleam, streak, pencil, sunbeam, moonbeam, aurora, day, sunshine, light of day, light of heaven, moonlight, starlight, sunlight, daylight, broad daylight, noontide light, noontide, noonday, noonday sun, glow, glimmering, glint, play of light, flood of light, phosphorescence, lambent flame, flush, halo, glory, nimbus, aureola, spark, scintilla, facula, sparkling, emication, scintillation, flash, blaze, coruscation, fulguration, flame, lightning, levin, ignis fatuus, luster, sheen, shimmer, reflexion, reflection, gloss, tinsel, spangle, brightness, brilliancy, splendor, effulgence, refulgence, fulgor, fulgidity, dazzlement, resplendence, transplendency, luminousness, luminosity, lucidity, renitency, nitency, radiance, radiation, irradiation, illumination, actinic rays, actinism, Roentgen-ray, Xray, photography, heliography, photometer, optics, photology, photometry, dioptrics, catoptrics, chiaroscuro, clairobscur, clear obscure, breadth, light and shade, black and white, tonality, reflection, refraction, dispersion, refractivity, shining, luminous, luminiferous, lucid, lucent, luculent, lucific, luciferous, light, lightsome, bright, vivid, splendent, nitid, lustrous, shiny, beamy, scintillant, radiant, lambent, sheen, sheeny, glossy, burnished, glassy, sunny, orient, meridian, noonday, tide, cloudless, clear, unclouded, unobscured, gairish, garish, resplendent, transplendent, refulgent, effulgent, fulgid, fulgent, relucent, splendid, blazing, in a blaze, ablaze, rutilant, meteoric, phosphorescent, aglow, bright as silver, light as day, bright as day, light as noonday, bright as noonday, bright as the sun at noonday, actinic, photogenic, graphic, heliographic, heliophagous, a day for gods to stoop and men to soar, dark with excessive bright.
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