Synonyms and Antonyms of luminous
1
giving off or reflecting much light
- the luminous moon bathed the snow-covered fields with a pearly glow
beaming, bedazzling, bright, brilliant, candescent, clear, dazzling, effulgent, fulgent, glowing, incandescent, lambent, lucent, lucid, lustrous, radiant, refulgent, sheeny, shining, shiny, splendid
ablaze, ardent, blazing, burning, combusting, fiery, flaming, red-hot
agleam, aglitter, blinding, coruscant, flaring, flashing, flickering, gemmy, glancing, glaring, gleaming, glimmering, glinting, glistening, glistering, glittering, scintillant, scintillating, shimmering, shimmery, sparkling, sunny, twinkling, winking
burnished, polished, shined
superbright, ultrabright
blackened, dark, darkened, darkish, darkling, darksome, dimmed, dusky, gloomy, lightless, murky, obscure, obscured, pitch-black, pitch-dark, somber (or sombre), sunless, tenebrous, unlit
cloudy, shadowlike, shadowy, shady
gray (also grey), leaden, pale, palish
2
standing above others in rank, importance, or achievement
- some of the most luminous writers in the nation's history have graced that magazine's pages
astral, bright, distinguished, eminent, illustrious, noble, notable, noteworthy, outstanding, preeminent, prestigious, redoubtable, signal, star, superior
celebrated, exalted, famed, famous, glorious, honored, renowned, reputable
infamous, notorious
dominant, paramount, predominant
3
not subject to misinterpretation or more than one interpretation
- an author with a simple, luminous prose style that is free of affectation and pretention
apparent, bald, bald-faced, barefaced, bright-line, broad, clear, clear-cut, crystal clear, decided, distinct, evident, lucid, luculent, manifest, nonambiguous, obvious, open-and-shut, palpable, patent, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, ringing, straightforward, transparent, unambiguous, unambivalent, unequivocal, unmistakable
