| 单词 | lucent |
| 释义 | lucent (once / 18128 pages) adj Lucent things shine or glow with light. On a clear night, the full moon is lucent in the sky. The literary word lucent essentially means "luminous" or "radiant," glowing with a soft, bright light. You're most likely to encounter it in a poem or novel, describing the stars or white flowers in the dusk, or someone' s beautiful pale face, but it sometimes has a "clear or lucid" meaning as well. It comes from the Latin lucentem, from lucere, "to shine." WORD FAMILYlucent: lucently USAGE EXAMPLESBut old-timers recall a similar confidence about loans at telecom gear makers Lucent Technologies and Cisco Systems in the 1990s, before their customers stopped paying. Seattle Times(Sep 26, 2016) They have flat heads with a ruff of lucent pink gills, long slithery bodies, and delicate little legs. The New Yorker(Apr 25, 2016) Henry Schacht, who was heading Lucent during part of this period, saw the whole process from the side of corporate management. Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat(2005) adj softly bright or radiant the lucent moon Syn aglow, lambent, luminous bright emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts |
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