lustrous
/ˈlʌ.stɹəs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.66 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Why it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes, and the clearstores toward the south north are as lustrous as ebony; and yet complainest thou of obstruction?"
- "There was not a cloud on the sky, save a few light vapours that congregated near the moon; but even they were lustrous with her presence."
- "1892, Walt Whitman, "Gods" in Leaves of Grass (abridged reprint of the 1892 edition), New York: The Modern Library, 1921, p. 232, https://archive.org/details/leavesofgrass00whit Or Time and Space, Or shape of Earth divine and wondrous, Or some fair shape I viewing, worship, Or lustrous orb of sun or star by night, Be ye my Gods."
- "It was a hot noon in July; and his face, lustrous with perspiration, beamed with barbaric good humor."
- "The wild warblers are warbling in the jungle Of life and spring and of the lustrous inundations, Flood on flood, of our returning sun."
- "The sunlight lay heavy and rich on his lustrous golden fur, and his monkey hands turned a pine cone this way and that, snapping off the scales with sharp fingers and scratching out the sweet nuts."
Etymology
Etymology tree English lustre Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English lustrous From lustre + -ous.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈlʌ.stɹəs/
Inflected Forms
more lustrous (comparative)
most lustrous (superlative)