Synonyms of the word gleaming


GLEAMINGAGLEAM - BRIGHT - EFFULGENCE - FLASH - GLEAM - GLIMMER - GLOW - LAMBENCY - NITID - RADIANCE - RADIANCY - REFULGENCE - REFULGENCY - SHINE

gleaming

  • adj. Having a bright sheen.
  • n. A flash or reflected light.
  • v. present participle of gleam.

agleam

  • adj. Glowing with subdued light.

bright

  • adj. Visually dazzling; luminous, lucent, clear, radiant; not dark.
  • adj. Having a clear, quick intellect; intelligent.
  • adj. Vivid, colourful, brilliant.
  • adj. Happy, in good.
  • adj. Sparkling with wit; lively; vivacious; cheerful.
  • adj. Illustrious; glorious.
  • adj. Clear; transparent.
  • adj. (archaic) Manifest to the mind, as light is to the eyes; clear; evident; plain.
  • n. An artist's brush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a flat, somewhat tapering bristle…
  • n. (obsolete) splendour; brightness.
  • n. (neologism) A person with a naturalistic worldview with no supernatural or mystical elements.
  • n. (US, in the plural) The high-beam intensity of motor vehicle headlamps.

effulgence

  • n. A state of being bright and radiant, splendor, brilliance.

flash

  • v. To briefly illuminate a scene.
  • v. To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
  • v. To be visible briefly.
  • v. To make visible briefly.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, informal) To briefly, and in most cases inadvertently, expose one's naked body…
  • v. (transitive, informal) To show or expose an "inappropriate" part of the body to someone for humorous reasons…
  • v. (figuratively) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
  • v. To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
  • v. To communicate quickly.
  • v. To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
  • v. (transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
  • v. (intransitive, of liquid) To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.).
  • v. (transitive, climbing) To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
  • v. (computing) To write to the memory of an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge.
  • v. (glassmaking) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
  • v. (juggling) To perform a flash.
  • v. (metallurgy) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To trick up in a showy manner.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.
  • n. A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
  • n. A very short amount of time.
  • n. (colloquial, US) A flashlight; an electric torch.
  • n. (figuratively) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
  • n. Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
  • n. (Britain, Cockney) The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
  • n. (juggling) A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
  • n. (linguistics) A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood…
  • n. (photography) Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help…
  • n. (archaic) A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for colouring liquor to make it look stronger.
  • adj. (Britain and New Zealand, slang) Expensive-looking and demanding attention; stylish; showy.
  • adj. (Britain, of a person) Having plenty of ready money.
  • adj. (Britain, of a person) Liable to show off expensive possessions or money.
  • adj. (US, slang) Occurring very rapidly, almost instantaneously.
  • n. A pool.
  • n. (engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream…

gleam

  • n. a small or indistinct shaft or stream of light.
  • n. a glimpse or hint; an indistinct sign of something.
  • n. brightness or shininess; splendor.
  • v. To shine; to glitter; to glisten.
  • v. To be briefly but strongly apparent.
  • v. (obsolete, falconry) To disgorge filth, as a hawk.

glimmer

  • n. A faint light; a dim glow.
  • n. A flash of light.
  • n. A faint or remote possibility.
  • n. (mineralogy, dated) mica.
  • v. (intransitive) To shine with a faint, unsteady light.

glow

  • v. To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated.
  • v. To radiate some emotional quality like light.
  • v. To gaze especially passionately at something.
  • v. To radiate thermal heat.
  • v. To shine brightly and steadily.
  • v. (transitive) To make hot; to flush.
  • v. (intransitive) To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc…
  • n. The state of a glowing object.
  • n. The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings.
  • n. The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one's face).

lambency

  • n. The property of being lambent, brightness.

nitid

  • adj. bright; lustrous; shining.
  • adj. (obsolete) gay; spruce; fine; said of persons.

radiance

  • n. the quality of being radiant, shining, bright or splendid.
  • n. (physics) the flux of radiation emitted per unit solid angle in a given direction by a unit area of a…

radiancy

  • n. The property of being radiant.
  • n. (physics) The amount of energy emitted, flux.

refulgence

  • n. the quality of being refulgent; refulgency.

refulgency

  • n. The property of being refulgent.

shine

  • v. (intransitive) To emit light.
  • v. (intransitive) To reflect light.
  • v. (intransitive) To distinguish oneself; to excel.
  • v. (intransitive) To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
  • v. (intransitive) To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
  • v. (intransitive) To be immediately apparent.
  • v. (transitive) To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
  • v. (transitive) To cause to shine, as a light.
  • v. (US, transitive) To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light.
  • n. Brightness from a source of light.
  • n. Brightness from reflected light.
  • n. Excellence in quality or appearance.
  • n. Shoeshine.
  • n. Sunshine.
  • n. (slang) Moonshine.
  • n. (cricket) The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
  • n. (slang) A liking for a person; a fancy.
  • n. (archaic, slang) A caper; an antic; a row.
  • v. (transitive) To cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).
  • v. (transitive, cricket) To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.

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