lustrous

3 definitions found

lustrous - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Lustrous \Lus"trous\, a. [Cf. F. lustreux. See 3d Luster.]
     Bright; shining; luminous. " Good sparks and lustrous."
     --Shak. -- Lus"trous*ly, adv.
     [1913 Webster]

lustrous - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  lustrous
      adj 1: made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting
             a sheen or glow; "bright silver candlesticks"; "a
             burnished brass knocker"; "she brushed her hair until it
             fell in lustrous auburn waves"; "rows of shining
             glasses"; "shiny black patents" [syn: bright,
             burnished, lustrous, shining, shiny]
      2: brilliant; "set a lustrous example for others to follow";
         "lustrous actors of the time"
      3: reflecting light; "glistening bodies of swimmers"; "the
         horse's glossy coat"; "lustrous auburn hair"; "saw the moon
         like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet"; "shining
         white enamel" [syn: glistening, glossy, lustrous,
         sheeny, shiny, shining]

lustrous - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  66 Moby Thesaurus words for "lustrous":
     aglow, beaming, beamy, blushing, bright, bright and sunny,
     brilliant, burning, burnished, candescent, charismatic, effulgent,
     flushing, fulgent, glace, glamorous, glassy, gleaming, gleamy,
     glimmering, glinting, glistening, glorious, glossy, glowing,
     illuminant, illustrious, incandescent, irradiative, lambent,
     lamping, light as day, lucent, luciferous, lucific, luciform,
     luminant, luminative, luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, magic,
     numinous, orient, polished, radiant, refulgent, resplendent,
     rutilant, rutilous, sheeny, shined, shining, shiny, sparkling,
     splendent, splendid, splendorous, splendrous, starbright, starlike,
     starry, streaming, suffused, sunny, sunshiny