lucent

Emitting light; shining, luminous.

Adjective

  1. 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. - 1922 (date written; published 1926), T[homas]...
  2. 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...

Origin

From Latin lūcentem, the present participle of lūcēre (“to shine”).

Forms

more lucent most lucent

Derived

electrolucent hyperlucent lucence lucency lucently noctilucent omnilucent radiolucent semilucent sonolucent unlucent