Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Bright; shining; lustrous; resplendent.
Wiktionary
- adj. Emitting light; shining, luminous.
- adj. Translucent; clear, lucid.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Shining; bright; resplendent.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. softly bright or radiant
Etymologies
- From the participle stem of Latin lucere ("to shine"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin lūcēns, lūcent-, present participle of lūcēre, to shine; see leuk- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The word lucent means ‘glowing with light’ and ‘marked by clarity.’”
“Each body bag has this kind of lucent quality, not quite see-through while at the same time not entirely filled in.”
“Wonder if – given the lower and lower mkt caps out there now … HP might even want to look at someone like Juniper or alcatel-lucent … to get more head on”
“ As the plane dipped beneath the layers of lucent haze, my heart sank with it.”
“Why go outside when you can commune directly with the lucent dead?”
“The near eye is overflowing with tears -- you can see the brim, lucent on the lower lid.”
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“There were pressing details to attend to, such as settling with Trans - lucent, who would not be pleased, but who surely would rec - ognize the effectiveness of Purple's actions.”
“It would have been another story, had Trans - lucent been conscious, but of course he wasn't.”
“I have traced the route, and queried the auspices," Trans - lucent said grimly.”
“Case watched childhood symbols of evil and bad luck tumble out along trans - lucent planes: swastikas, skulls and crossbones dice flashing snake eyes.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lucent’.
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my fab list
blowsabella, aperçu, froideur, salubrious, abject, gallipot, mumchance, wainscot, virago, macerate, lascivious, clandestine and 181 more...
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joy, dodge, ram, monster, coke, snuggle, gateway, ivory, life, subway, crunch, crest and 151 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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phrontistery - l
from phrontistery.info
labarum, labefactation, labeorphily, labile, lability, labret, lac, laches, lacis, laic, lam?, lar and 496 more...
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soma's list
esprit d'escalier, triskelion, borborygmus, lalochezia, pareidolia, octothorpe, pandiculation, semihemidemisemiq..., phosphenes, lucent, seraphim, phantasmagoria and 8 more...
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bling
( open list, visual, light, descriptive )
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even more:
sparkle, shine, gleam, glisten, shimmer, gloss, pearly, opalescent, iridescent, prismatic, multifaceted, glow and 35 more... -
Light!
lambent, scintillant, refulgent, lucent, agile, gossamery, clarion, luminary, heliograph, lodestar, pharos, heliotrope
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Energetic
braze, raze, brisance, brisant, rive, catalyze, whipsaw, crack, actinic, sublimate, animate, vitalize and 88 more...
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I am : bright
Verbs and adjectives (mostly adjectives) pertaining to physical light, brightness and/or clarity.
bright, brilliant, ablaze, afire, aflame, incandescent, fluorescent, phosphorescent, lucent, lambent, transparent, clear and 29 more...
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Colour & light
Beautiful words for the things we sense.
opaline, verdigris, opalescent, lustrous, nacreous, gloaming, lambent, lucent, darkling, glister, lapis, sapphire and 24 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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Pretty Words
Words that sound pretty.
ethereal, ephemeral, iridescent, shimmer, wisp, whisper, charisma, crescent, azure, mystery, fantasy, miracle and 142 more...
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megsarah's Words
lygophilia, rhapsodomancy, lynch, ebb, throb, hollow, somniloquy, incense, caress, sashay, ephemeral, quiver and 98 more...
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theastic's Words
cellar, stalemate, wrought, opal, tyrant, squelch, squab, linen, tartan, paisley, scope, siren and 395 more...
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dark and bright words of shine and fi...
scotophil, scotoma, scotia, shed, shadow, shade, scone, whiting, edelweiss, light, lightning, lucina and 349 more...
Tweets
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