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shimmering
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | glimmering |
| Synonyms: | beaming, bright, glimmery, glistening, glittering, glowing, scintillating, shining, sparkling, twinkling, twinkly |
| Main Entry: | bright |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shining, glowing in appearance |
| Synonyms: | ablaze, aglow, alight, argent, auroral, beaming, blazing, brilliant, burning, burnished, coruscating, dazzling, effulgent, flashing, fulgent, fulgid, glaring, gleaming, glistening, glittering, glossy, golden, illuminated, illumined, incandescent, intense, irradiated, lambent, light, lighted, limpid, luminous, lustrous, mirrorlike, moonlit, phosphorescent, polished, radiant, relucent, resplendent, scintillating, shimmering, shiny, silvery, sparkling, sunlit, sunny, twinkling, vivid |
| Antonyms: | dark, dreary, dull, obscure, somber |
| Main Entry: | iridescent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rainbow-colored |
| Synonyms: | irised, lustrous, many-colored, nacreous, opalescent, opaline, pearly, polychromatic, prismatic, rainbowlike, shimmering |
| Main Entry: | lustrous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | glossy, shining |
| Synonyms: | bright, burnished, dazzling, effulgent, fulgent, glacé, gleaming, glinting, glistening, glorious, glowing, incandescent, lambent, lucent, luminous, polished, radiant, refulgent, shimmering, shiny, sparkling, splendid, waxy |
| Antonyms: | dark, dull, matte, unshiny |
| Main Entry: | shining |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bright |
| Synonyms: | effulgent, gleaming, glistening, luminous, radiant, shimmering |
| Main Entry: | sparkling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | glinting |
| Synonyms: | bright, brilliant, gleaming, glowing, radiant, scintillating, shimmering, shining |
| Main Entry: | twinkling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sparkling |
| Synonyms: | bright, flashing, gleaming, glimmering, glistening, shimmering, shining |
| Main Entry: | starry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pertaining to stars |
| Synonyms: | astral, bespangled, bright, celestial, glittering, luminous, lustrous, radiated, shimmering, shining, sidereal, spangled, sparkling, stellar, stellary, stelliform |
| Main Entry: | sparkling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gleaming |
| Synonyms: | animated, bright, brilliant, bubbling, bubbly, coruscant, dazzling, effervescent, fizzy, flashing, glistening, glistering, glittering, impassioned, lambent, lively, mantling, scintillant, scintillating, shimmering, shining, spirited, starry, twinkling, vigorous |
| Antonyms: | dull, matte |
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