GLISTER meaning: Shine with a deceptive allure

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glister: Merriam-Webster
glister: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
glister: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
glister: Collins English Dictionary
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Glister, glister: Wordnik
glister: Wiktionary
glister: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
glister: Infoplease Dictionary
Glister, glister: Dictionary.com
Glister: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
glister: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
glister: Rhymezone
Glister: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
glister: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
glister: FreeDictionary.org
glister: Mnemonic Dictionary
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glister: Encyclopedia

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glister: Idioms
glister: Wordcraft Dictionary

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glister: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (glister)

▸ verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To gleam, glisten, or coruscate.
▸ noun:  A brilliant flash; a glint
▸ noun:  Alternative form of clyster [(now rare) A medicine applied via the rectum; an enema or suppository.]

Similar:

sparkle, glisten, glitter, scintillation, gleam, glitten, glint, glance, glimmer, spangle, more...

Opposite:

dullness, tarnish, tarnishing, lackluster

Adjectives:

bright, poisonous, ruddy, stereoscopic, natural, white, burnished, glorious, harsh, delicate, brief

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