Qualities
Synonyms for luminous
The synonym for luminous recorded in this bank is aglow, in the sense "softly bright or radiant". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for luminous
- aglowadjective, in the sense "softly bright or radiant"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day luminous is audited in a second meaning.
softly bright or radiant
A sky luminous with stars.
The true synonym
aglow
Same sentence, swapped: A sky aglow with stars.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- hallowed
- transparent
- everlasting
Where luminous turns up in the game
luminous is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where luminous is the trap
- coherentadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is logical, in the sense "capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner", and luminous is on the board beside it.
- coherentadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is ordered, in the sense "marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts", and luminous is on the board beside it.
- translucentadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is filmy, in the sense "allowing light to pass through while not being fully transparent", with luminous sitting one tile away.
Play luminous
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so luminous reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other qualities words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
One vocabulary, two jobs
luminous is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 3. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.