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Meet the Word
🔊 LOO-min-us · adjective
Luminous describes something that seems to glow with its own light — not just catching brightness, but radiating it from the inside. A full moon, a firefly, a phone screen glowing in a dark room: all luminous. But the word shines just as bright in metaphor — a luminous smile, luminous prose, a luminous performance all describe something so vivid and alive it feels lit from within, even when there's no actual light involved.
From glow-in-the-dark ceiling stickers to Nobel-caliber poetry, this word shows up in some surprisingly different corners of life. Ready to see where?
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