lucent
adjUK /ˈl(j)uːsnt/ · US /ˈlus(ə)nt/
Etymology From Latin lūcentem, the present participle of lūcēre (“to shine”).
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] E[dward] Lawrence, “Book IV: Extending to Akaba. Chapter XXXIX.”, in Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Company, published 1937, →OCLC, page 228:
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 into an otherwise dusky world.1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, chapter I, in In the “Stranger People’s” Country, New York: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 16:
- Derived terms
- electrolucent, hyperlucent, lucence, lucency, lucently, noctilucent, omnilucent, radiolucent, semilucent, sonolucent, unlucent