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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow;
- Example: "bright silver candlesticks"
- Example: "a burnished brass knocker"
- Example: "she brushed her hair until it fell in lustrous auburn waves"
- Example: "rows of shining glasses"
- Example: "shiny black patents"
[syn: bright, burnished, lustrous, shining, shiny]

2. brilliant;
- Example: "set a lustrous example for others to follow"
- Example: "lustrous actors of the time"

3. reflecting light;
- Example: "glistening bodies of swimmers"
- Example: "the horse's glossy coat"
- Example: "lustrous auburn hair"
- Example: "saw the moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet"
- Example: "shining white enamel"
[syn: glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shiny, shining]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Lustrous \Lus"trous\, a. [Cf. F. lustreux. See 3d Luster.]
   Bright; shining; luminous. " Good sparks and lustrous."
   --Shak. -- Lus"trous*ly, adv.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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, lustrous, 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, lustrous,
       sheeny, shiny, shining]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

66 Moby Thesaurus words for "lustrous":
   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