different between luminous vs obvious
luminous
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)
- 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.
- 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
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obvious
English
Etymology
16th century, from Latin obvius (“being in the way so as to meet, meeting, easy to access, at hand, ready, obvious”), from ob- (“before”) + via (“way”). In order to avoid an awkward form such as *obvy, the Latin ending -us was maintained in the form -ous (which is otherwise equivalent to Latin -osus).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /??b.vi.?s/, (fast speech) /??.vi.?s/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??b.v??s/, /??.v??s/, (fast speech) /??v.j?s/
- Hyphenation: ob?vi?ous
Adjective
obvious (comparative more obvious, superlative most obvious)
- Easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:obvious.
Antonyms
- unobvious
- non-obvious
- subtle
Derived terms
- obviously
- obviousness
Translations
See also
- clear
- evident
- manifest
- plain
Further reading
- obvious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- obvious in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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