enluminé
French, adjective
enluminé is spelled E-N-L-U-M-I-N-É (8 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written French, the 91,528th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enluminé is a French adjective meaning “painted in colour” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of enluminer. Without its accent, enlumine is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Peint en couleur”.
What does enluminé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
painted in colour
- 2
decorated with illuminations
- 3
brightly coloured
- 4
overly idyllic; fanciful
verb
- 1
past participle of enluminer
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Peint en couleur. 2. Orné d’enluminures. 3. Qui est vivement coloré. 4. Qui présente des faits de manière fantaisiste.
noun: 1. Style chargé, artificiel et de mauvais goût.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of enluminé
- enluminée feminine
- enluminés masculine plural
- enluminées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is enluminé in French?
enluminé appears about once in every 8 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).