Shining

/ˈʃaɪnɪŋ/

Synonyms for "shining" (173 found)

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Closest matches (35)

ablation abrasion abrasive aglow attrition beaming beamy blooming blushing brightbright and sunnybrilliant burning burnished candescent chafe charismatic clean clear

Adjective(5 words)

agleam beamish bright burnished candent

Adjective(6 words)

aglow alight beamful beamsome beamy brilliant

Noun(5 words)

bright brightness brilliant buff buffing

Strong matches (52)

dazzling devastating divine dressing erasure erosion erwhelming filing flushing fretting full glace glamorous glassy gleaming gleamy glinting glistening glorious glossy

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glowing golden gorgeous grazing grinding heavenly illuminant illustrious incandescent irradiative killing lamping lightlight as day

Noun(9 words)

distinguish excel excellent gleam gleaming gloss glow highlighting illumination

Adjective(6 words)

effulgent fulgent glowing illuminating lambent lighted

Verb(1 words)

glinted

Adjective(2 words)

glistening glossy

Related words (86)

liquid luciferous lucific luciform luminant luminative luminiferous luminificent luminous lustrous magic magical numinous orient polished radiant rasping raving ravishing resplendent

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Adjective(15 words)

lit lucent luciferous lucific luminant luminiferous luminous lustrous orient profulgent radiant refulgent resplendent sheeny shiny

Noun(14 words)

luminosity luminous luster outperform outstanding polishpolish wodapolishing radiance radiant radiate sheen spotlighting stellar

Adjective(4 words)

lustrouspolish akcjasheeny shiny

Verb(1 words)

radiated

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

10 entries

appearanceappearance qualityemit lightillumination lightperform wellpolish qualityvisual attributework

More specific

21 entries

brilliant buffing exceptional exposure glare gleam glint glittering glow glowing highlighting incandescent lusteroutstanding performancepolish polishing

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Collocations

12 entries

shine intensityshininess measurementshininess scaleshining achievementshining careershining exampleshining lightshining performanceshining potentialshining qualityshining surfaceshiny surface

Inflections

6 entries

more shiningmost shiningshined shines shinings shone

Derivations

6 entries

outshine shine shiner shininess shiningly shiny

similar

3 entries

bright polished superior

Sample sentences

15 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Her eyes were shining with joy.

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The sun is shining in the sky.

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Many stars were shining in the heavens.

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The roof is shining in the sun.

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