lucent
/ˈluːs(ə)nt
/adjective literary
Glowing with or giving off light: the moon was lucent in the background...
- One of these was such a soft lucent pinky white as to appear almost transparent.
- As a child, I would look out into the street and see other kids playing hackeysack, but I would also see the lucent outline of carriages streaming through their bodies like a breeze.
- A glistening black stuffed crow is perched on the volume's edge, its splayed wings and claws eerily delineated against the lucent white pages.
Derivatives
lucency
- In form, proportion and lucency, the winter garden is a really pleasing space.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Latin lucent- 'shining', from the verb lucere (see lucid).
Rhymes
- pupillography
- pupillometer
- pupillometric
- pupillometrics
- pupillometry
- pupil-master
- pupil-monger
- pupil nurse
- pupilometer
- pupil power
- dispensability
- dispensable
- dispensary
- dispensation
- dispensational
- dispensationalism
- dispensationalist
- dispense
- dispenser
- dispense with someone's services
- dispensing chemist
- dispensing optician
- dispersal
- dispersant
- disperse