Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a sheen or glow; gleaming: synonym: bright.
- adjective Well-known or distinguished; illustrious.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Giving out or shedding light, as the sun or a fire; bright; brilliant; luminous: chiefly used figuratively.
- Reflecting light; having a brilliant surface.
- Synonyms Radiant, brilliant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Bright; shining; luminous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a
glow . - adjective As if shining with a brilliant light;
radiant .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective brilliant
- adjective made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow
- adjective reflecting light
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Examples
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But he's losing weight, and his coat, normally shiny and lustrous, is dry and brittle.
one day we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny 2005
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This will give the oak a lustrous brown color, and nicking will not expose a different surface, as the ammonia fumes penetrate to a considerable depth.
The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference Joseph Triemens
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"Havanas in Camelot," a posthumous collection of William Styron's essays, transports us back to an era when being a novelist meant a kind of lustrous celebrity, as Styron and his contemporaries ( "our vintage" — Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, James Baldwin) jockeyed to inherit the outsize mantles of Hemingway and Faulkner.
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Perhaps I should try growing a 'lustrous' moustache and start drinking camel's milk. posted by Glyn Davies at
Indian Summer Glyn Davies 2007
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Perhaps I should try growing a 'lustrous' moustache and start drinking camel's milk. posted by Glyn Davies at
Archive 2007-08-01 Glyn Davies 2007
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His senses were filled for the moment by its other occupants, the men in the fresh correctness of their evening dress, whose least gesture seemed to spring from an indefinite fulness of life, the two women in front, a kind of lustrous tableau of what it was possible to choose and to enjoy.
Hilda A Story of Calcutta Sara Jeannette Duncan
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His senses were filled for the moment by its other occupants, the men in the fresh correctness of their evening dress, whose least gesture seemed to spring from an indefinite fulness of life, the two women in front, a kind of lustrous tableau of what it was possible to choose and to enjoy.
The Path of a Star Sara Jeannette Duncan
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To him the monster is "lustrous" and a thing of beauty.
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To him the monster is "lustrous" and a thing of beauty.
MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory Dr. Andrew J. Harvey 2008
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If your hair remains thick and lustrous thanks to good genes or the wizardry of modern cosmetics, the temptation is great to let the long locks flow.
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