lustrous

from 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}]
    
from 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]
    
from 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

    

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