Dictionary Definition
lustrous adj
1 made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing;
reflecting a sheen or glow; "bright silver candlesticks"; "a
burnished brass knocker"; "she brushed her hair until it fell in
lustrous auburn waves"; "rows of shining glasses"; "shiny black
patents" [syn: bright,
burnished, shining, shiny]
2 brilliant; "set a lustrous example for others
to follow"; "lustrous actors of the time"
3 reflecting light; "glistening bodies of
swimmers"; "the horse's glossy coat"; "lustrous auburn hair"; "saw
the moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet"; "shining
white enamel" [syn: glistening, glossy, sheeny, shiny, shining]
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Adjective
lustrous (: more lustrous, : most lustrous)Extensive Definition
Lustre or Luster may refer to:
- Luster, Norway, a community in Norway
- Lustre (mineralogy), a description of the way light interacts with the surface of a crystal, rock, or mineral
- Luster, a description of the way light interacts with the surface of a molluscan pearl
- Lusterware, ceramics with lustre glazes
- Lustre (file system), a Free Software distributed file system
- Lustre (programming language), a synchronous programming language
- Luster (film), a movie by Everett Lewis
- Lustre, a color grading software developed by Autodesk Media and Entertainment
- Lustrum, a period of five years
Luster is the surname of:
- Ahrue Luster, a guitarist
- Andrew Luster (born 1963), an heir to the Max Factor cosmetics
- Betty Luster, (born 1922), an American television actress, singer, and dancer
- Dewey Luster, a former head coach of the Oklahoma Sooners college football team
- Marv Luster (born 1939), a Canadian football (soccer) player
- Scott Luster, a coach of women's volleyball
lustrous in German: Lustre
lustrous in French: Lustre
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
aglow,
beaming, beamy, blushing, bright, bright and sunny,
brilliant, burning, burnished, candescent, charismatic, effulgent, flushing, fulgent, glace, glamorous, glassy, gleaming, gleamy, glimmering, glinting, glistening, glorious, glossy, glowing, illuminant, illustrious, incandescent, irradiative, lambent, lamping, light as day, lucent, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative, luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, magic, numinous, orient, polished, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, rutilant, rutilous, sheeny, shined, shining, shiny, sparkling, splendent, splendid, splendorous, splendrous, starbright, starlike, starry, streaming, suffused, sunny, sunshiny