luculent

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
16
Letters
8

Definition of luculent

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (archaic)Shining, brilliant.
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adj

  1. (archaic)Shining, brilliant.
  2. (obsolete)Of language, speeches etc: lucid, brilliantly clear.
    “Cleombrotus Ambraciotes persuaded I know not how many hundreds of his auditors, by a luculent oration he made of the miseries of this, and happiness of that other life, to precipitate themselves […].”

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Etymology

From Latin lūculentus, from lūx (“light”).

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