Usually means: Shining faintly with intermittent light.
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  1. glimmering: Merriam-Webster
  2. glimmering: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. glimmering: Collins English Dictionary
  4. glimmering: Vocabulary.com
  5. Glimmering, glimmering: Wordnik
  6. glimmering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. glimmering: Wiktionary
  8. glimmering: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. glimmering: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. glimmering: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Glimmering, glimmering: Dictionary.com
  12. glimmering: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Glimmering: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. glimmering: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. glimmering: Rhymezone
  16. Glimmering: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. glimmering: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. glimmering: FreeDictionary.org
  19. glimmering: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. glimmering: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. glimmering: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. glimmering: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (glimmering)

▸ noun:  A glimmer.

Similar:
glimmery, bright, shimmering, glittering, twinkling, flittering, owl light, glanceful, coruscance, clinquant, more...

Opposite:
dull, dim, dark, murky, gloomy

Types:
sparkle, twinkle, shimmer, glitter, glimmer, gleam, flash, glint, scintillation, more...

Phrases:
opposite of glimmering, more...

Adjectives:
faint, first, least, last, feeble, dim, smallest, vaguest, pale, merest, slightest

Colors:
    silver,     gold,     pearl,     opal,     champagne, more...



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Similar:
glimmery, bright, shimmering, glittering, twinkling, flittering, owl light, glanceful, coruscance, clinquant, more...

Opposite:
dull, dim, dark, murky, gloomy

Types:
sparkle, twinkle, shimmer, glitter, glimmer, gleam, flash, glint, scintillation, more...

Phrases:
opposite of glimmering, more...

Adjectives:
faint, first, least, last, feeble, dim, smallest, vaguest, pale, merest, slightest

Colors:
    silver,     gold,     pearl,     opal,     champagne, more...



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