Adjective: lustrious
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more lustrious |
| Superlative | most lustrious |
Sample Sentences
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(The teeming lady comes, / The lustrious orb, Venus contralto, the blooming mother. / Sister of loftiest gods, Alboni's self I hear.) [1892, Walt Whitman, “Proud Music of the Storm”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], →OCLC, stanza 3, page 313:]
Adjectives inflected like lustrious
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From lustre + -ious, modelled after illustrious.