Illuminate vs. Luminous — What's the Difference?

Light up

Emitting light, especially in the dark; shining.

Decorate (a page or initial letter in a manuscript) with gold, silver, or coloured designs.

Reflecting light; illuminated

Help to clarify or explain

Having a high degree of saturation

To provide or brighten with light.

Presented or perceived clearly or vividly

To decorate or hang with lights.

Enlightened or intelligent

To make understandable; clarify

Emitting light; glowing brightly; shining.

To enlighten intellectually or spiritually; enable to understand

Brightly illuminated.

To adorn (a page of a book, for example) with ornamental designs, images, or lettering in brilliant colors or precious metals.

Clear; enlightening; easy to understand.

To expose to or reveal by radiation.

Shining; emitting or reflecting light; brilliant; bright; as, the is a luminous body; a luminous color.

One who has or professes to have an unusual degree of enlightenment.

Illuminated; full of light; bright; as, many candles made the room luminous.

(transitive) To shine light on something.

Enlightened; intelligent; also, clear; intelligible; as, a luminous mind.

(transitive) To decorate something with lights.

Softly bright or radiant;

To clarify or make something understandable.

(transitive) To decorate the page of a manuscript book with ornamental designs.

To make spectacular.

(intransitive) To glow; to light up.

(intransitive) To be exposed to light.

To direct a radar beam toward.

Someone thought to have an unusual degree of enlightenment.

(obsolete) enlightened

To make light; to throw light on; to supply with light, literally or figuratively; to brighten.

To light up; to decorate with artificial lights, as a building or city, in token of rejoicing or respect.

To adorn, as a book or page with borders, initial letters, or miniature pictures in colors and gold, as was done in manuscripts of the Middle Ages.

To make plain or clear; to dispel the obscurity to by knowledge or reason; to explain; to elucidate; as, to illuminate a text, a problem, or a duty.

To light up in token or rejoicing.

Enlightened.

One who is enlightened; esp., a pretender to extraordinary light and knowledge.

Make lighter or brighter;

Make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear;

Add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts)