Dictionary

lustrous en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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• /ˈlʌ.stɹəs/ (General-American)

Etymology

Etymology tree English lustre Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English lustrous From lustre + -ous.

Meanings

1. Having a glow or lustre.
   • 1892, Walt Whitman, "Gods" in Leaves of Grass (abridged reprint of the 1892 edition), New York: The Modern Library, 1921, p. 232, https://archive.org/details/leavesofgrass00whit Or Time and Space, Or shape of Earth divine and wondrous, Or some fair shape I viewing, worship, Or lustrous orb of sun or star by night, Be ye my Gods.
   • Why it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes, and the clearstores toward the south north are as lustrous as ebony; and yet complainest thou of obstruction? c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
   • The sunlight lay heavy and rich on his lustrous golden fur, and his monkey hands turned a pine cone this way and that, snapping off the scales with sharp fingers and scratching out the sweet nuts. 2000, Philip Pullman, chapter 1, in The Amber Spyglass, Random House Children's Books, published 2001:
   • The wild warblers are warbling in the jungle Of life and spring and of the lustrous inundations, Flood on flood, of our returning sun. 1936, Wallace Stevens, “Meditation Celestial & Terrestrial”, in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, published 1971, page 123:
   • It was a hot noon in July; and his face, lustrous with perspiration, beamed with barbaric good humor. 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 1, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
   • There was not a cloud on the sky, save a few light vapours that congregated near the moon; but even they were lustrous with her presence. 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “An Evening Alone”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 304:
2. As if shining with a brilliant light; radiant.

Forms

Deriveds

nonlustrous · unlustrous · lustrously · lustrousness · illustrous · sublustrous · semilustrous

Synonyms

splendent · burnished

Translations (28)

fr brillant (having a glow or lustre) · nl glanzend (having a glow or lustre) · hu fénylő (having a glow or lustre) · fi hohtava (having a glow or lustre) · bg сияещ (having a glow or lustre) · cmn 光彩 (having a glow or lustre) · hu ragyogó (having a glow or lustre) · tr ışık saçan; parlak (having a glow or lustre) · cs lesklý (having a glow or lustre) · pdt blank (having a glow or lustre) · sv glänsande (having a glow or lustre) · es lustroso (having a glow or lustre) · ca llustrós (having a glow or lustre) · cmn 閃亮 /闪亮 (having a glow or lustre) · bg блестящ (having a glow or lustre) · cy gloyw (having a glow or lustre) · fi loistava (having a glow or lustre) · fi kiiltävä (having a glow or lustre) · vo nidik (having a glow or lustre) · ga lonrach (having a glow or lustre) · cs zářivý (having a glow or lustre) · da glansfuld (having a glow or lustre) · cy llewy(r)chus (having a glow or lustre) · ru блестящий (having a glow or lustre) · hi चमकीला (having a glow or lustre) · de glänzend (having a glow or lustre) · uk блискучий (having a glow or lustre) · fr lustré (having a glow or lustre)