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celebrity, figure, light, notable, personage, personality, somebody, standout, star, superstar, VIP—more at CELEBRITY

lu·mi·nes·cence noun : the low-temperature emission of light (as by a chemical or physiological process); also : such light

— lu·mi·nes·cent adjective

Synonyms

blaze, flare, fluorescence, glare, gleam, glow, illumination, incandescence, light, radiance, shine—more at LIGHT

lu·mi·nous adjective 1 : emitting light; also : LIGHTED

2 : CLEAR, INTELLIGIBLE

3 : ILLUSTRIOUS

— lu·mi·nance noun

— lu·mi·nous·ly adverb

Synonyms

beaming, bright, brilliant, effulgent, glowing, incandescent, lambent, lucent, lucid, lustrous, radiant, refulgent, shiny—more at BRIGHT

lu·mi·nos·i·ty noun : the quality or state of being luminous

Synonyms

brilliance, dazzle, effulgence, illumination, lightness, lucidity, radiance, refulgence, splendor—more at BRILLIANCE

lum·mox noun : a clumsy person

1lump noun 1 : a piece or mass of indefinite size and shape

2 : AGGREGATE, TOTALITY

3 : a usu. abnormal swelling

Synonyms

[1] blob, chunk, clod, clump, glob, gob, hunk, nub, wad; also bead, drop, globule; block, body, bulk; particle, piece, portion; bit, chip, crumb, morsel, scrap

[3] excrescence, growth, neoplasm, tumor—more at GROWTH

[3] bump, knot, nodule, swelling—more at BUMP

2lump verb 1 : to heap together in a lump

2 : to form into lumps

3 : to move noisily and clumsily

Synonyms

accumulate, amass, assemble, collect, concentrate, garner, gather, group, pick up, round up, scrape—more at GATHER

3lump adjective : not divided into parts

lump·ec·to·my noun, plural -mies : excision of a breast tumor

lump·ish adjective : lacking ease or grace (as of movement or expression)

Synonyms

awkward, clumsy, gawky, graceless, heavy-handed, lubberly, ungainly, unhandy—more at CLUMSY

lumpy adjective : filled or covered with lumps

Synonyms

broken, bumpy, coarse, irregular, jagged, pebbly, ragged, rough, rugged, uneven—more at UNEVEN

lu·na·cy noun, plural -cies 1 : a deranged state of the mind : INSANITY

2 : extreme folly; also : a foolish act

Synonyms

[1] aberration, dementia, derangement, insanity, madness, mania—more at INSANITY

[2] absurdity, asininity, fatuity, folly, foolery, foolishness, idiocy, imbecility, inanity, insanity, stupidity—more at FOLLY

lu·nar adjective : of or relating to the moon

lu·nate adjective : shaped like a crescent

1lunatic adjective [ORIGIN: ME lunatik, fr. AF & LL; AF lunatik, fr. LL lunaticus, fr. L luna moon; fr. the belief that lunacy fluctuated with the phases of the moon]

1 a : affected with lunacy : INSANE

b : used for insane persons

2 : extremely foolish

Synonyms

absurd, crazy, foolish, harebrained, insane, mad, nonsensical, nutty, senseless, silly, stupid

2lunatic noun : a person affected with lunacy; also : one capable of crazy actions or extravagances

Synonyms

maniac, nut, psychotic; also madman, madwoman; deviant; paranoid, schizophrenic; character, crackpot, crank, eccentric, kook, oddball, screwball; case, patient

1lunch noun 1 : a light meal usu. eaten in the middle of the day

2 : the food prepared for a lunch

2lunch verb : to eat lunch

lun·cheon noun : a usu. formal lunch

lun·cheon·ette noun : a small restaurant serving light lunches

lunch·room noun 1 : LUNCHEONETTE

2 : a room (as in a school) where lunches are sold and eaten or lunches brought from home may be eaten

lu·nette noun : something shaped like a crescent

lung noun 1 : one of the usu. paired baglike breathing organs in the chest of an air-breathing vertebrate

2 : a mechanical device to promote breathing and make it easier

— lunged adjective

lunge noun 1 : a sudden thrust or pass (as with a sword)

2 : a sudden forward stride or leap

— lunge verb

lu·pine noun : any of a genus of leguminous plants with long upright clusters of pealike flowers

lu·pus noun [ORIGIN: ML, fr. L, wolf]

: any of several diseases characterized