lucent
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 6
/ˈl(j)uːsnt/
(UK)
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/ˈl(j)uːsnt/ (UK) · /ˈlus(ə)nt/ (US)
Definition of lucent
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Emitting light; shining, luminous.
“Sherif Nasir led us: his lucent goodness, which provoked answering devotion even from the depraved, made him the only leader (and a benediction) for forlorn hopes.”
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adj
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Emitting light; shining, luminous.
“Sherif Nasir led us: his lucent goodness, which provoked answering devotion even from the depraved, made him the only leader (and a benediction) for forlorn hopes.”
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Translucent; clear, lucid.
“[…] her dilated eyes fixed with a horror-stricken fascination upon the pygmy burial-ground, in that broad, lucent expanse of the yellow moonlight which was still streaming through the illuminated gorge of the mountains into an otherwise dusky world.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Latin lūcentem, the present participle of lūcēre (“to shine”).
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