different between luminous vs effulgent

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French lumineus, from Latin l?min?sus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lu?m?n?s/

Adjective

luminous (comparative more luminous, superlative most luminous)

1. Emitting light; glowing brightly.

   Synonyms: beamful, shining, radiant; see also Thesaurus:shining

   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 11, [1]

     The bonfire in his heart made luminous the rose-tan in his cheek.

2. Brightly illuminated.

   Synonyms: lighted, lit up; see also Thesaurus:illuminated

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Derived terms

• luminosity

Related terms

• illuminate

Translations

English

Etymology

From Latin effulg?ns (“flashing, glittering”), present participle of effulge? (“to shine or gleam forth, flash, glitter”), from ?- (variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘out; away’)) + fulge? (“to flash, gleam, glisten, glitter, shine”) (from Proto-Indo-European *b?el- (“shiny; white”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??f?ld?(?)nt/, /?-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??f?ld??nt/
• Hyphenation: ef?fulg?ent

Adjective

effulgent (comparative more effulgent, superlative most effulgent)

1. (literary, also figuratively) Radiant, resplendent, shining.

   Synonyms: (obsolete) profulgent; see also Thesaurus:shining

Alternative forms

• affulgent

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ef?ful.?ent/, [?f?f?????n?t?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ef?ful.d??ent/, [?f?ful??d???n?t?]

Verb

effulgent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of effulge?