adj
Beaming, shining (especially with reference to a person's face or eyes).
adv
Lit up brightly and with color, gleaming.
n
Alternative form of effulgence [A state of being bright and radiant, splendor, brilliance.]
adj
Alternative form of effulgent [(literary, also figuratively) Radiant, resplendent, shining.]
adj
Exhibiting afterglow; resembling or pertaining to (chiefly metaphorical) afterglow.
adj
Glowing with subdued light.
adj
Glimmering; gleaming or shining.
adj
(sometimes figuratively) glowing; radiant
n
Whiteness or brightness, especially where darkness is expected or found.
adj
(literary) Providing light or heat.
adj
Shimmering; covered (with something shimmering).
adj
Shining; radiant; bright
n
(US, Colorado) The glow on mountaintops at dawn and dusk.
adj
Shining as if with sparks or small points of light.
adj
Beamy; radiant; luminous.
n
The act of someone or something that beams.
adj
(nonce word) Radiantly beaming; happy; cheerful.
adj
Shedding or emitting beams (of light, etc.); radiant.
adj
(figuratively) Radiant; beamsome; joyous; gladsome.
v
(transitive, informal) To decorate with sequins or other sparkly material; to bespangle.
v
(intransitive) To glisten all about.
v
To cover with glitter; to make glittery.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To benight.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To shine around or upon.
v
(archaic or poetic) To add sparkle (to)
v
(transitive, figuratively) To give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to whiten;
n
Dazzling, often garish, brilliance.
v
(intransitive, poetic) To be conspicuous; shine brightly a brilliancy (of talents, deeds, etc.).
n
A sight, usually associated with a deity, that is forbidden or that is too glorious to behold.
adj
(UK, dialectal) shining; bright
v
(transitive) To shine, gleam.
v
To flicker, to shine or reflect light intermittently.
v
(intransitive, obsolete) To shine; gleam.
n
(slang) Shiny jewelry that displays wealth, such as a diamond ring or a stylish gold necklace or bracelet.
n
Alternative form of bling bling [(slang) Shiny jewelry that displays wealth, such as a diamond ring or a stylish gold necklace or bracelet.]
adj
(slang) shiny, glittery
n
(UK, dialect) gleam; glimmer; sparkle
n
A display of anything brilliant or bright.
v
(transitive) To shine shoes.
adj
Emitting much light; visually dazzling; luminous, lucent, radiant.
n
(idiomatic) The glamour and glitz of a place, especially a big city.
n
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bright, shiny, object.
n
(colloquial, often ironic) A person who is intelligent, clever or quick-witted.
n
The quality of being bright.
adj
(archaic) Marked by brightness or brilliance; resplendent in appearance; shining.
n
(chiefly Britain) Magnificence; resplendence.
n
A shining quality; brilliance.
n
A hair pomade, making the hair shine brilliantly.
v
To become bright, glossy, and smooth; to brighten, to gleam, to shine forth.
adj
(now rare) Glowing as a result of its high temperature; incandescent, glowing with heat.
adj
glowing with heat; white-hot, incandescent
adj
Shining around or about.
adj
Alternative form of clinquant [Glittery; gleaming; sparkling; dressed in, or overlaid with, tinsel finery.]
v
(intransitive) To shine with united radiance, or one general light.
n
Glittering; giving forth of intermittant flashes of light.
adj
Emitting flashes of light; glittering.
v
(intransitive, figuratively) To exhibit brilliant technique or style.
n
A sudden display of brilliance; a flashing of light; a sparkle.
adj
(colloquial) Very bright and luminous in colour.
n
The airglow of the sky during the day.
n
(mining) A glittering stone.
n
A burst or flash of light; a cause of dazzling.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To scatter around.
n
(obsolete) Sudden display; flash; glitter.
n
Alternative spelling of éclat [A brilliant or successful effect; brilliance of success or effort; splendor; brilliant show; striking effect; glory; renown.]
v
(transitive, figuratively) To overshadow; to be better or more noticeable than.
v
to radiate, shine or beam
n
Alternative form of effulgence [A state of being bright and radiant, splendor, brilliance.]
adj
(literary, also figuratively) Radiant, resplendent, shining.
v
(transitive) To adorn with glittering embellishments; cause to glitter or shine.
adj
Beaming forth; flashing.
n
A flying off in small particles, like heated iron or fermenting liquors; a scintillation.
adj
Bright red light filled the room, it was eye-searing, yet strangely familiar.
n
Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
n
The shine or glow of fire.
adv
With a flashing appearance.
adj
(dated, poetic) Flashing; producing flashes.
adj
shining unsteadily or varying rapidly in brightness (referring to a light or a source of light)
v
(intransitive) To glimmer, flicker.
v
(transitive) To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
v
(intransitive) Of colours, to be very bright; to be so bright as to appear to radiate as a light source.
adj
Glowing as if with fluorescence; vivid
n
A gleam or glimpse of the future; foreglimpse.
v
To shine forth; bring into view.
v
(obsolete) To flash like lightning; to lighten; to gleam; to thunder.
n
(obsolete) brightness; splendour; glitter; effulgence
adj
Shining brilliantly; radiant.
adj
Scintillant, coruscant; marked by fleeting flashes of radiant light.
n
(obsolete) splendour; resplendence; effulgence
n
Splendor, splendour; dazzling brightness.
adj
Flashing or shining brightly.
n
Obsolete form of fulgor. [Splendor, splendour; dazzling brightness.]
n
(figuratively) brilliance
adj
resembling a lightning flash; fulgurous
v
To flash or emit flashes like lightning.
adj
Full of gems; bright, glittering.
n
(obsolete) The lens of the eye.
n
(obsolete) A gleam of light.
n
(uncountable) An intense, blinding light.
n
The quality of being glary; a dazzling brilliancy.
adj
Of a dazzling lustre; glaring; bright; shining.
n
A cosmetic product used to impart a gleam or shine to part of the face.
n
The quality of being gleamy.
n
A flash of reflected light.
adv
While gleaming, or so as to gleam.
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To glisten; to gleam.
v
(nonstandard) simple past tense of glow
n
(obsolete) brightness; splendour
n
A faint light; a dim glow.
n
A good omen; a small but undependable chance of something positive to come.
adj
Characterised or marked by glimmering
adj
(Northern England) shiny, glistening.
n
A glistening shine from a wet surface.
n
One who or that which glistens.
v
(intransitive, archaic) To gleam, glisten or coruscate.
adj
Obsolete form of glistering. [Glistening, glittering, gleaming, shining.]
v
(archaic, dialecical) to glisten, to reflect, to shimmer.
n
The throwing of glitter in this way.
n
(poetic) a glittering, a sparkling with light
adj
Obsolete form of glittering. [Brightly sparkling.]
adj
(rare, poetic, archaic) Synonym of glittery
n
The quality of being glittery.
adj
Characterised by glitter or glittering
n
The quality of being glitzy.
n
An emanation of light supposed to shine from beings that are specially holy. It is represented in art by rays of gold, or the like, proceeding from the head or body, or by a disk, or a mere line.
n
The state of being glossy.
v
To shine brightly and steadily.
n
That which glows or emits light.
n
The property of being glowy.
n
Synonym of glittering generality
n
The property of glowing or seeming to glow.
n
The act of an individual engaging in glowposting.
adj
Characterised or marked by glowing.
adj
Characteristic of a glow or glowing
v
To give a shine to (something or someone).
adj
(poetic) Shining brightly like gold.
n
Alternative form of gravity brightening [Synonym of gravity darkening]
adj
(of clothing) Made of a reflective or fluorescent material that can be easily seen.
n
(cosmetics) A strand or spot of hair dyed a different color than the rest.
adj
Emitting sparks of fire when struck with steel; scintillating.
n
(obsolete) A shining in.
n
(by extension) great emotion, especially anger
adj
showing intense emotion, as of a performance, etc.
n
(medicine, dated) sunstroke.
adj
(rare) Shining between, through, or among.
v
(rare) To shine among or between.
n
(New Zealand) A small patch of light reflected from a shiny surface onto another surface such as a wall or ceiling.
n
A spark produced by the jumping of electricity across a permanent gap.
n
(UK, dialectal) A gleam or flash of light; a glow or glowing.
n
(Britain, slang) Electricity.
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To shine.
n
A vision of a bright light, surrounded by darkness, seen by a dying person
n
Any joke of the form "How many X does it take to change a light bulb?" followed by a witty riposte, where X is some usually stereotypical class of people.
n
The way one's eye's sparkle with joy and life.
adj
Clear, transparent or bright.
v
(transitive) To colour; dye.
adj
(slang) exhilarated, excited; showing signs of emotion
v
(transitive) To dye (part of the hair) a darker color than the rest.
adj
(now rare) Shining, brilliant.
adj
Emitting light; glowing brightly; shining.
n
(by extension, figuratively) Brilliance, attractiveness or splendor.
n
(dated) A chandelier, particularly one decorated with glass lustres
adj
As if shining with a brilliant light; radiant.
n
A relatively large spark
adj
(figuratively) sparkling; brilliant
adj
Sparkling, glittering, twinkling
adv
While, or as if, molten; incandescently.
n
A dim level of illumination for romantic or similar effect.
adj
(poetic, nonstandard) Shining or glowing at night; noctilucent.
n
Shining sparks thrown off from melted brass.
adj
Bright; lustrous; shining.
v
(transitive) To shine or burn more brightly or intensely than.
v
(transitive) To shine more brightly than.
v
(transitive) To surpass in glitter or splendour.
v
(transitive) To glow brighter than
v
Alternative form of outlustre [(poetic, transitive) To surpass in brightness or lustre; to outshine.]
v
(poetic, transitive) To surpass in brightness or lustre; to outshine.
v
To shine brighter than something else
n
One who or that which outshines another.
n
The glow of light appearing above or surrounding an object; halation
adv
In a phosphorescent manner.
v
To ornament or relieve with lines etc. of a different, usually lighter, colour.
adj
(obsolete) Shining forth; brilliant; effulgent.
n
Synonym of glimmer of hope
n
lustre; brilliancy of a surface; used especially in ceramics to denote the peculiar metallic brilliancy seen in lustred pottery such as majolica
n
The property of being refulgent.
adj
Resplendent, or shining brightly and radiantly.
adj
(poetic) shining with reflected light.
v
(transitive) To shine or polish again.
v
To shine radiantly; to be resplendent.
adj
Obsolete spelling of resplendent [Shiny and colourful, and thus pleasing to the eye.]
adj
(obsolete, rare) resplendent; brilliant
adj
Of a place, landscape or view: having a pleasant appearance, looking bright or cheerful.
adj
(literary or sciences, also figuratively) Shining or glowing with a red colour or light.
v
(obsolete) To shine; to emit rays of light.
v
(astronomy) Of a star or other celestial body: to vary rapidly in brightness; to twinkle.
n
A flash of light; a spark.
n
A faint shining or twinkling.
adj
(obsolete, rare) scintillant; sparkling
v
(idiomatic) To experience apparent flashing lights in one's field of vision, especially after receiving a blow to the head.
adj
(figuratively) Prominent or famous for virtue or greatness.
n
(fashion) A sparkling spangle used for the decoration of ornate clothing.
v
(transitive) To radiate, cast, give off (light); see also shed light on.
adj
(rare, poetic) Beautiful, good-looking, attractive; radiant; shiny.
adj
Having a sheen; shining; glossy.
adv
(poetic, archaic) brightly
n
A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining.
n
A cosmetic device used to add highlighter or similar product to the face
n
The state of being shimmery.
v
(transitive) to cause to be shiny or more shiny
adj
Full of shine or shininess; gleaming, radiant.
n
One who shines; a luminary.
n
The quality of shining; brightness.
n
One who silvers (covers with silver or a silvery metal).
v
(obsolete) To glimmer; to twinkle.
v
(intransitive) To display fine qualities; to stand out as excellent.
v
(intransitive) To be exciting or dazzling.
n
A chirp of radiation power from an astronomical body that has a smeared appearance on its plot in the time-frequency plane (usually associated with massive bodies orbiting supermassive black holes)
adj
(UK dialectal) Bright; serene.
v
To set with bright points: star or spangle.
adj
That spangles; glittering, sparkling.
n
A small particle of glowing matter, either molten or on fire.
n
Obsolete form of spark. [A small particle of glowing matter, either molten or on fire.]
v
(transitive, intransitive) To spark or ignite in sparks
v
Pronunciation spelling of spark. [(transitive, figuratively) To trigger, kindle into activity (an argument, etc).]
n
(slang, humorous) A vampire who sparkles, such as those featured in the Twilight series.
n
(slang) A gem or ornament that sparkles.
n
(archaic) A small spark.
n
(informal) Things that sparkle; gems.
n
The state or quality of being sparkly.
adj
Of an object, reflecting light as if giving off tiny sparks or flashes of light.
n
(UK, Australia, New Zealand) An electrician.
adj
Pertaining to mirrors; mirror-like, reflective.
v
To make visual; to transform into or represent as visible image.
n
Alternative form of spitshine [A shoeshine where a liquid, traditionally saliva, is used.]
v
(transitive) To clean with a spitshine.
adj
shining; glossy; lustrous
n
Great light, luster or brilliance.
n
(countable, obsolete) A spark.
n
An imaginary magic dust or powder supposedly able to give one charisma or other positive qualities; hence, charisma or glamour, especially that possessed by a celebrity.
adj
Shining; vivid, garish.
n
(obsolete) A gleam of light; a flame.
adj
Resembling strobe lighting.
n
Alternative form of stime [(UK, dialect) A slight gleam or glimmer; a glimpse.]
adj
Like a sunbeam; bright, golden, cheerful.
adj
Heated by exposure to direct sunlight.
adj
(obsolete) Full of sunshine.
adj
Bright, as though with sunshine; shining.
n
(rare) An optical phenomenon in which dew-covered waxy-leaved trees retroreflect beams of light, as from a vehicle's headlights.
v
(transitive, colloquial) To outshine or eclipse.
v
(obsolete) To shine through.
adj
(obsolete) Glittering.
n
(obsolete, nonce word) translucency
n
(countable, art) A transparent artwork, viewable by shining light through it.
v
(of a source of light) to shine with a flickering light; to glimmer
v
(poetic, archaic) To blaze or shine brightly.
n
A gleam in the eyes that reflects a fighting spirit.
n
(UK, regional, archaic) A bright aspect of the sky at the horizon.
n
The state or temperature at which matter emits white light.
n
Alternative form of wonderglow [A wondrous or glorious glow]
n
Alternative form of wonderglow [A wondrous or glorious glow]
n
A wondrous or glorious glow
n
(rare) A wondrous or glorious glow or shine
n
A brilliant or successful effect; brilliance of success or effort; splendor; brilliant show; striking effect; glory; renown.
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