Usually means: Emitting or reflecting light; glowing.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. luminous: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. luminous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. luminous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. luminous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Luminous, luminous: Wordnik
  6. luminous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. luminous: Wiktionary
  8. luminous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. luminous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. luminous: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. luminous: Dictionary.com
  12. luminous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. luminous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Luminous (ClariS song), Luminous (The Horrors album), Luminous (book), Luminous (story collection), Luminous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Luminous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. luminous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. luminous: Rhymezone
  18. luminous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. luminous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. luminous: Free Dictionary
  21. luminous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. luminous: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. luminous: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. luminous: Vocabulary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. luminous: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. luminous: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. luminous: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. luminous: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Luminous: Extragalactic Astronomy

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. luminous: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. luminous: Lighting Design Glossary
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See luminously as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Emitting light; glowing brightly; shining.
adjective:  Brightly illuminated.
adjective:  Clear; enlightening; easy to understand.

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