Synonyms of the word

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.

appear

• v. (intransitive) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.
• v. (intransitive) To come before the public.
• v. (intransitive) To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge,…
• v. (intransitive) To become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation…
• v. (intransitive, copulative) To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look.

be

• v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
• v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
• v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
• v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
• v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from"…
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
• v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are…
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun…
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
• v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate…
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
• v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
• v. (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
• v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
• v. (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
• v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense,…
• v. (African American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the…

beam

• n. Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
• n. One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building; one of the transverse members of a ship's frame…
• n. (nautical) The maximum width of a vessel.
• n. The crossbar of a mechanical balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
• n. The principal stem of the antler of a deer.
• n. (literary) The pole of a carriage or chariot.
• n. (textiles) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving and…
• n. The straight part or shank of an anchor.
• n. The central bar of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached…
• n. In steam engines, a heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which…
• n. A ray or collection of approximately parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body.
• n. (figuratively) A ray; a gleam.
• n. One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk.
• n. (music) A horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric…
• n. (railway) An elevated rectangular dirt pile used to cheaply build an elevated portion of a railway.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To emit beams of light; shine; radiate.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To smile broadly or especially cheerfully.
• v. (transitive) To furnish or supply with beams.
• v. (transitive) give the appearance of beams to.
• v. (transitive, science fiction) To transmit matter or information via a high-tech wireless mechanism.
• v. (transitive, currying) To stretch something (for example an animal hide) on a beam.
• v. (transitive, weaving) To put (something) on a beam.
• v. (transitive, music) To connect (musical notes) with a beam, or thick line, in music notation.

beautify

• v. (transitive) To make beautiful, or to increase the beauty of.

brightness

• n. The quality of being bright.
• n. The perceived luminance of an object.
• n. Intelligence, cleverness.

effulgence

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

embellish

• v. To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
• v. To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality; to distort, to embroider.

emit

• v. (transitive) To send out or give off.

experience

• n. (countable, uncountable) Event(s) of which one is cognizant.
• n. (countable) An activity which one has performed.
• n. (countable) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge,…
• n. (uncountable) The knowledge thus gathered.
• v. (transitive) To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions…

fall

• n. The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
• n. A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US, obsolete elsewhere) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the…
• n. A loss of greatness or status.
• n. (sports) A crucial event or circumstance.
• n. A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover…
• n. (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
• n. The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
• n. See falls.
• n. An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To move downwards.
• v. (transitive) To be moved downwards.
• v. (intransitive) To happen, to change negatively.
• v. (transitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To diminish; to lessen or lower.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To bring forth.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
• v. (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or…
• v. (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
• v. (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the…
• v. (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
• v. (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
• v. (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.

fancify

• v. (transitive) To make fancy.

feel

• v. (heading) To use the sense of touch.
• v. (heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
• v. (transitive) To be or become aware of.
• v. (transitive) To experience the consequences of.
• v. (copulative) To seem (through touch or otherwise).
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To understand.
• n. A quality of an object experienced by touch.
• n. A vague mental impression.
• n. An act of fondling.
• n. A vague understanding.
• n. An intuitive ability.
• n. (chiefly US, slang) Alternative form of feeling.
• pron. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele.
• adj. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele.
• adv. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele.

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.

glint

• n. A short flash of light.
• adj. (archaic, Shropshire, of a blade) Not sharp; dull.
• v. To flash briefly.
• v. To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter.
• v. (archaic, Shropshire) To dry; to wither.

glisten

• v. (intransitive, of a wet or greasy surface) To reflect light with a glittering luster; to sparkle, coruscate,…
• n. A glistening shine from a wet surface.

glitter

• n. A bright, sparkling light; shininess or brilliance.
• n. A shiny, decorative adornment, sometimes sprinkled on glue to make simple artwork.
• n. (figuratively) Glitz.
• v. To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam.
• v. To be showy, specious, or striking, and hence attractive.

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).

hap

• n. (archaic) That which happens; an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or…
• v. (intransitive, literary) to happen; to befall; to chance.
• v. (transitive, literary) To happen to.
• n. (Britain, Scotland, Western Pennsylvania, dialect) A wrap, such as a quilt or a comforter. Also, a small…
• v. (dialect) To wrap, clothe.
• n. Any of the cichlid fishes of the tribe Haplochromini.

happen

• v. To occur or take place.
• v. To occur unexpectedly, by chance or with a low probability.
• v. (followed by on or upon) To encounter by chance.
• adv. (obsolete or dialect) maybe, perhaps.

look

• v. (intransitive, often with "at") To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
• v. To appear, to seem.
• v. (copulative) To give an appearance of being.
• v. (intransitive, often with "for") To search for, to try to find.
• v. To face or present a view.
• v. To expect or anticipate.
• v. (transitive) To express or manifest by a look.
• v. (transitive, often with "to") To make sure of, to see to.
• v. (dated, sometimes figuratively) To show oneself in looking.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To look at; to turn the eyes toward.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To seek; to search for.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To expect.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence.
• v. (baseball) To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.
• interj. Pay attention.
• n. The action of looking, an attempt to see.
• n. (often plural) Physical appearance, visual impression.
• n. A facial expression.

occur

• v. To happen or take place.
• v. To present or offer (itself).
• v. (impersonal) To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest (itself).
• v. (sciences) To be present or found.

pass

• v. (heading) Physical movement.
• v. (heading) To change in state or status, to advance.
• v. (heading) To move through time.
• v. (heading) To be accepted.
• v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
• v. (heading) To do or be better.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
• n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise…
• n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
• n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
• n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
• n. An attempt.
• n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
• n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
• n. A sexual advance.
• n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
• n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into…
• n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
• n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit…
• n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
• n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
• n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
• n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
• n. (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the…
• n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
• n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
• n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

polish

• n. A substance used to polish.
• n. Cleanliness; smoothness, shininess.
• n. Refinement; cleanliness in performance or presentation.
• v. (transitive) To shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding.
• v. (transitive) To refine; remove imperfections from.
• v. (transitive) To apply shoe polish to shoes.
• v. (intransitive) To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface.
• v. (transitive) To refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite.

prettify

• v. To make pretty or prettier, to make more attractive, especially only in a superficial way.

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.

radiate

• v. To extend, send or spread out from a center like radii.
• v. (transitive) To emit rays or waves.
• v. (intransitive) To come out or proceed in rays or waves.
• v. (transitive) To illuminate.
• v. To expose to ionizing radiation, such as by radiography.
• v. (transitive) To manifest oneself in a glowing manner.
• v. (ecology, intransitive) to spread into new habitats, migrate.
• adj. Radiating from a center; having rays or parts diverging from a center; radiated.
• adj. Surrounded by rays, such as the head of a saint in a religious picture.
• adj. (botany) Having parts radiating from the center, like the petals in many flowers.
• adj. (biology) Having radial symmetry, like a seastar.
• adj. (zoology) Belonging to the Radiata.
• n. (zoology) One of the Radiata.

reflect

• v. (transitive) To bend back (light, etc.) from a surface.
• v. (intransitive) To be bent back (light, etc.) from a surface.
• v. (transitive) To mirror, or show the image of something.
• v. (intransitive) To be mirrored.
• v. (transitive) To agree with; to closely follow.
• v. (transitive) To give evidence of someone's or something's character etc.
• v. (intransitive) To think seriously; to ponder or consider.

refulgence

• n. the quality of being refulgent; refulgency.

refulgency

• n. The property of being refulgent.

seem

• v. (copulative) To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.
• v. (obsolete) To befit; to beseem.

smooth

• adj. Having a texture that lacks friction. Not rough.
• adj. Without difficulty, problems, or unexpected consequences or incidents.
• adj. Bland; glib.
• adj. Flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; fluent.
• adj. (of a person) Suave; sophisticated.
• adj. (of an action) Natural; unconstrained.
• adj. (of a motion) Unbroken.
• adj. (chiefly of water) Placid, calm.
• adj. (of an edge) Lacking projections or indentations; not serrated.
• adj. (of food or drink) Not grainy; having an even texture.
• adj. (of a beverage) Having a pleasantly rounded flavor; neither rough nor astringent.
• adj. (mathematics, of a function) Having derivatives of all finite orders at all points within the function’s…
• adj. (mathematics, of a number) That factors completely into small prime numbers.
• adj. (linguistics, classical studies, of a vowel) Lacking marked aspiration.
• adj. (of muscles, medicine) Involuntary and non-striated.
• adv. Smoothly.
• n. Something that is smooth, or that goes smoothly and easily.
• n. A smoothing action.
• n. A domestic animal having a smooth coat.
• n. A member of an anti-hippie fashion movement in 1970s Britain.
• n. (statistics) The analysis obtained through a smoothing procedure.
• v. To make smooth or even.
• v. To make straightforward.
• v. (statistics, image processing, digital audio) To capture important patterns in the data, while leaving…

smoothen

• v. To make smooth.
• v. To become smooth.

strike

• v. (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
• v. (heading, physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect.
• v. (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
• v. (heading, personal, social) To have a sharp or severe effect.
• v. To touch; to act by appulse.
• v. (heading, transitive) To take down, especially in the following contexts.
• v. (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
• v. (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
• v. (dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.
• v. (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
• v. To make and ratify.
• v. To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level…
• v. (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
• v. To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
• v. To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.
• v. To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
• v. (obsolete) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.
• v. To balance (a ledger or account).
• n. (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when…
• n. (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
• n. A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
• n. A blow or application of physical force against something.
• n. (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise…
• n. An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
• n. (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
• n. The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
• n. (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the…
• n. An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is…
• n. (obsolete) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
• n. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
• n. (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
• n. (obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.
• n. The discovery of a source of something.
• n. A strike plate.