glittering

Meaning of glittering

adjective
  1. shining with a shimmering or sparkling light.
    glittering chandeliers
verb, gerund or present participle
  1. shine with a bright, shimmering reflected light.
    the grass glittered with dew

late Middle English: from Old Norse glitra .

Information about glittering

  • The plural form of glittering is: glitterings.
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Hyphenation of glittering

glit-ter-ing

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • glittering is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

glittering synonyms

Meaning aglitter:

aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly

Meaning (of the sun or another source of light) give out a bright light:

shine

Meaning shine brightly with flashes of light:

sparkle

Meaning (of a star or light, or a shiny object) shine with a gleam that changes constantly from bright to faint:

twinkle

Meaning give out or reflect small flashes of light:

glint

Meaning shine brightly, especially with reflected light:

gleam

Meaning shine with a soft, slightly wavering light:

shimmer

Meaning shine faintly with a wavering light:

glimmer

Meaning (of light or a source of light) shine unsteadily; vary rapidly in brightness:

flicker

Meaning (of a light) flash on and off in a regular or intermittent way:

blink

Meaning (of a bright object or a light) shine or flash intermittently:

wink

Meaning shine in a bright but brief, sudden, or intermittent way:

flash

Meaning cover with spangles or other small sparkling objects or lights:

spangle

Meaning sparkle; glitter:

glister

Meaning emit flashes of light; sparkle:

scintillate

Meaning (of light) flash or sparkle:

coruscate

Meaning destroy (small growths or areas of tissue) using diathermy:

fulgurate

Meaning emit light by luminescence:

luminesce

Meaning glow with heat:

incandesce

Meaning emit light or radiation by phosphorescence:

phosphoresce

Words that rhyme with glittering

Ring, ring, Baring, Dearing, Spearing, Waring, Wearing, Zearing, abearing, afearing, affearing, afterhearing, anearing, appearing, ashlaring, backbearing, baring, bearing, beggaring, besmearing, bevaring, bewaring, blaring, blearing, burglaring, calendaring, caring, cellaring, charing, cheddaring, cheeseparing, childbearing, chivaring, clearing, coappearing, collaring, comparing, compearing, daring, dearing, declaring, dellaring, desugaring, disappearing, dogearing, drearing, earing, emparing, endearing, ensearing

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