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| Main Entry: | luminous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bright, glowing |
| Synonyms: | beaming, brilliant, clear, crystal, effulgent, fulgent, illuminated, incandescent, lambent, lit, lucid, luminescent, lustrous, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, shining, translucent, transparent, vivid, lighted, lucent |
| Antonyms: | dark, dim, dull, gloomy |
| Main Entry: | luminous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | obvious, understandable |
| Synonyms: | bright, brilliant, clear, comprehensible, evident, intelligible, knowable, lucid, perspicacious, perspicuous, apprehensible, comprehendible, fathomable, graspable |
| Antonyms: | obscure, unclear, unintelligible, vague |
| Main Entry: | comprehensible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | understandable |
| Synonyms: | clear, coherent, conceivable, explicit, intelligible, knowable, lucid, luminous, plain, apprehensible, comprehendible, fathomable, graspable |
| Antonyms: | exclusive, incomplete, unintelligible, nonunderstandable |
| Main Entry: | crystal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clear, transparent |
| Synonyms: | clear-cut, limpid, lucid, luminous, pellucid, translucent, lucent, transpicuous, unblurred |
| Notes: | crystal from Greek krustallos, originally meant 'ice' and it is, properly, rock crystal - describing ornamental pieces or items of crystallized quartz; fine glass, when cut or etched, is called crystal - but often there is no crystallized quartz but rather lead and it is properly called lead crystal |
| Antonyms: | foggy, clouded |
| Main Entry: | incandescent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | glowing |
| Synonyms: | beaming, brilliant, effulgent, fulgent, intense, lambent, luminous, radiant, red-hot*, refulgent, shining, lucent, phosphorescent, white-hot |
| Antonyms: | dark, dim |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | intelligible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | understandable |
| Synonyms: | clear, comprehensible, distinct, knowable, lucid, luminous, obvious, open, plain, unambiguous, unequivocal, unmistakable, apprehensible, fathomable, graspable |
| Antonyms: | ambiguous, confusing, equivocal, obscure, perplexing, unintelligible |
| Main Entry: | luminescent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | glowing, shining |
| Synonyms: | bright, effulgent, luminous, radiant, fluorescent, phosphorescent |
| Antonyms: | dull, obscured, unshiny |
| Main Entry: | lustrous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | glossy, shining |
| Synonyms: | bright, dazzling, effulgent, fulgent, glorious, glowing, incandescent, lambent, luminous, polished, radiant, refulgent, shimmering, shiny, sparkling, splendid, waxy, burnished, glacé, gleaming, glinting, glistening, lucent |
| Antonyms: | dark, dull, matte, unshiny |
| Main Entry: | perspicuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clear, obvious |
| Synonyms: | apparent, clear-cut, comprehensible, crystal*, distinct, explicit, intelligible, limpid, lucid, luminous, pellucid, plain, self-evident, straightforward, transparent, unambiguous, understandable, crystal-clear, easily understood, lucent, unblurred |
| Antonyms: | obscure, unclear, vague |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | resplendent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bright, radiant |
| Synonyms: | beaming, blazing, brilliant, dazzling, effulgent, flaming, glittering, glorious, glossy, glowing, gorgeous, luminous, lustrous, magnificent, proud, refulgent, shining, shiny, splendid, sublime, superb, gleaming, irradiant, splendiferous, splendorous |
| Antonyms: | cloudy, dull, gloomy, withering |
| Main Entry: | translucent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clear |
| Synonyms: | clear-cut, crystal, diaphanous, glassy, limpid, lucid, luminous, pellucid, crystalline, lucent, see-through, semiopaque, semitransparent, translucid, unblurred |
| Antonyms: | cloudy, opaque, blocked |
| Main Entry: | beaming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | radiant; beautiful |
| Synonyms: | bright, brilliant, clinquant, effulgent, fulgent, glittering, glowing, incandescent, lambent, luminous, refulgent, scintillating, sparkling, flashing, gleaming, glistening, lucent |
| Antonyms: | ugly |
| Main Entry: | bright |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shining, glowing in appearance |
| Synonyms: | ablaze, alight, argent, beaming, blazing, brilliant, burning, dazzling, effulgent, fulgent, glaring, glittering, glossy, golden, illuminated, incandescent, intense, lambent, light, limpid, luminous, lustrous, polished, radiant, resplendent, scintillating, shimmering, shiny, sparkling, sunny, twinkling, vivid, aglow, auroral, burnished, coruscating, flashing, fulgid, gleaming, glistening, illumined, irradiated, lighted, mirrorlike, moonlit, phosphorescent, relucent, silvery, sunlit |
| Antonyms: | dark, dreary, dull, obscure, somber |
| Main Entry: | brilliant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shining, glowing in appearance |
| Synonyms: | ablaze, bright, clinquant, dazzling, effulgent, flashy, fulgent, glittering, glossy, incandescent, intense, lambent, luminous, lustrous, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, scintillating, showy, sparkling, vivid, coruscating, gleaming, lucent |
| Antonyms: | dark, dull, dulled |
| Main Entry: | clear |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cloudless, bright |
| Synonyms: | clarion, crystal, fair, fine, halcyon, light, luminous, pleasant, shining, shiny, sunny, rainless, sunshiny, unclouded, undarkened, undimmed |
| Antonyms: | cloudy, dark, dim, dull, fuzzy, gloomy, shadowy, unclear |
| Main Entry: | glowing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | burning, bright |
| Synonyms: | beaming, flaming, florid, flush, flushed, lambent, luminous, lustrous, red, rich, rubicund, ruddy, sanguine, vibrant, vivid, warm, aglow, gleaming, phosphorescent, suffused |
| Main Entry: | light |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illuminated |
| Synonyms: | ablaze, bright, brilliant, clear, cloudless, glossy, glowing, lambent, luminous, lustrous, polished, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, rich, shining, shiny, sunny, vivid, aglow, burnished, flashing, fluorescent, lucent, phosphorescent, scintillant, unclouded, unobscured, well-lighted, well-lit |
| Antonyms: | black, dark, dim, gloomy, obscure, darkened |
| Main Entry: | lucid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | evident, obvious |
| Synonyms: | clear, clear-cut, comprehensible, distinct, explicit, intelligible, knowable, limpid, luminous, pellucid, plain, translucent, transparent, unambiguous, understandable, apprehensible, comprehendible, crystal clear, fathomable, graspable, transpicuous, unblurred |
| Antonyms: | obscure, unclear, vague, clouded |
| Main Entry: | sunny |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bright, clear (referring to weather) |
| Synonyms: | brilliant, clarion, cloudless, fine, light, luminous, pleasant, radiant, shining, shiny, summery, rainless, sunlit, sunshiny, unclouded, undarkened |
| Antonyms: | cloudy, gloomy, rainy, stormy |
| Main Entry: | shining |
| Part of Speech: | adjective1 |
| Definition: | bright |
| Synonyms: | effulgent, luminous, radiant, shimmering, gleaming, glistening |
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