lucent
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8.8
- adjective
- /ˈluːsənt/
- Literature
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lúcido
- She admired the lucent surface of the lake, which reflected the stars above.
- lucent light
Examples
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The artist used a lucent glaze on the pottery to enhance its beauty.
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Body stretched toward the lucent wave.
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They were lucent as the morning sky, vast as the desert.
Fiction book (1993) -
She seemed, for an instant, made of light, as if the sun burned behind her eyes, and all her bones were lucent and bright as fire.
Fiction book (1993) -
The young girl stood in the unreal light, her lucent body like a saintly apparition.
Fiction book (1991) -
A patina of lucent color from the tall stained-crystal windows spread itself over her like a web of light, pinning her to the floor.
Fiction book (1992) -
The light breaks in sheer drifting waves across the table, tracing the wood's lucent grain.
Fiction book (1993) -
The lucent moonlight illuminated the path through the dark forest.
Synonyms
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4.8
Shining with a soft steady light like a lantern
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5.5
Lit with a soft warm light or showing happiness
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3.1
Completely see-through so you can easily see inside
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9.6
A soft, gentle light that seems to move
Shining with a soft, slightly flickering light
Full of bright light
Antonyms
How Bright
Surface Forms
Morphology
lucent = luc + ent
The element 'luc' is a Latin combining form (not a standalone English word) and the adjective is not transparently built from a recognizable English base, so learners will not reliably infer the meaning from its parts.
Etymology
Lucent comes from the Latin root luc- meaning 'light' or 'to shine', and you can see the same root in lucid and translucent. So, lucent means 'shining softly' or 'clear because light passes through', like a gentle glow or a partly see-through object.