Glistening

Synonyms for "glistening" (53 found)

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Closest matches (11)

Adjective(4 words)

lustrous bead beaded brilliant

blinking blinky bright burnished coruscant coruscating fresh

Strong matches (16)

Adjective(5 words)

gleam gleaming glitter glittering glossy

gleaming glimmering glimmerous glimmery glistering glittering glittery glossy luminous lustrous

Verb(1 words)

glinted

Related words (26)

polished scintillant scintillating scintillescent sheeny shimmering shimmery shining shiny sleek spangly sparkling tinselly twinkle twinkling twinkly

Adjective(9 words)

radiant sheen sheeny shimmering shine shining shiny sparkle sparkling

Noun(1 words)

sparling

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

9 entries

aesthetic qualityappeal appearance phenomenon process quality shinesurface qualityvisual property

More specific

18 entries

brilliant prosecompelling narrativedewdew glisteningdew induced glisteningdroplets gleam gleaming glitteringice glisteningice surface glisteninglucid argumentmetallic finish glisteningpolished rhetoricshimmering sparkle

Showing 16 of 18 words.

Collocations

9 entries

glistening dewglistening eyesglistening finishglistening frostglistening lightglistening rainglistening skinglistening surfaceglistening water

Inflections

5 entries

glistened glistenings glistensmore glisteningmost glistening

Derivations

3 entries

glisten glisteningly glisteningness

similar

1 entries

bright

Sample sentences

11 total sentences available.

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This glistening little tulpa is a four-dimensional creature. The crown of his head is my biological mother squeezing me out, and the tips of his toes will be the death of me. We are about a quarter past his nipples at the moment. Tubular, man!

Source: tatoeba (2484351)

To believe himself in the port of Naples, all that was needed was to see the glistening of knives.

Source: tatoeba (6831768)

Layla's skin was glistening.

Source: tatoeba (7219462)

The cobwebs are glistening in the silver dew.

Source: tatoeba (8589736)

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