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land: We have been lumbered with looking after our neighbours'
six cats.
luminous adj. 1 shiny, shining, bright, brilliant, lighted (up), lit
(up), illuminated, radiant, alight, resplendent, lustrous,
gleaming, shimmering, glistening, sparkling, dazzling,
refulgent, effulgent: The moon shone with a luminous beauty. 2
glowing, aglow, luminescent, incandescent, phosphorescent,
fluorescent: He had a watch with luminous hands. 3 clear,
lucid, perspicuous, percipient, perspicacious, penetrating,
discerning, perceptive, clear-eyed, clear-headed, keen, acute,
sharp, explicit, incisive, specific, express; understandable,
intelligible: His latest novel provides another example of his
luminous style.
lump° n. 1 mass, piece, gob, gobbet, clod, chunk, clot, wad, clump,
hunk, nugget; cube, wedge, cake: There was a lump of earth was
clogging the drain. May I have two lumps of sugar, please? 2
bump, growth, swelling, protuberance, protrusion, prominence,
bulge, excrescence, tumescence, nodule, knob; wen, cyst, boil,
carbuncle, blister, wart, corn: You ought to see a doctor about
that lump on your foot.
--v. 3 Often, lump together. combine, join, consolidate,
collect, bunch, group, unite, mass, aggregate, blend, mix, throw
or put together: Don't lump me together with everyone else,
without even asking my opinion.
lumpý v. Usually, lump it. allow, tolerate, suffer, put up with,
bear, stand, brook, endure: I'm afraid you'll just have to lump
it, whether you like it or not.
lumpy adj. chunky, bumpy, uneven, granular, grainy: Mix the batter
till it is no longer lumpy.
lunacy n. 1 madness, insanity, dementia, craziness, derangement,
psychosis, mania: Formerly, it was believed that lunacy
fluctuated in accordance with the phases of the moon. 2 folly,
foolishness, bad or poor judgement, illogicality, illogic,
senselessness, ridiculousness, irrationality, foolhardiness,
stupidity: It would be sheer lunacy to confess to something you
did not do.