Glittering

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Glitter \Glit"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Glittered}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Glittering}.] [OE. gliteren; akin to Sw. glittra,
     Icel. glitra, glita, AS. glitenian, OS. gl[imac]tan, OHG.
     gl[imac]zzan, G. gleissen, Goth. glitmunjan, and also to E.
     glint, glisten, and prob. glance, gleam.]
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     1. To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and
        broken light or showy luster; to gleam; as, a glittering
        sword.
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              The field yet glitters with the pomp of war.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     2. To be showy, specious, or striking, and hence attractive;
        as, the glittering scenes of a court.
  
     Syn: To gleam; to glisten; to shine; to sparkle; to glare.
          See {Gleam}, {Flash}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  glittering
       adj : having brief brilliant points or flashes of light; "bugle
             beads all aglitter"; "glinting eyes"; "glinting water";
             "his glittering eyes were cold and malevolent"; "shop
             window full of glittering Christmas trees"; "glittery
             costume jewelry"; "scintillant mica"; "the
             scintillating stars"; "a dress with sparkly sequins";
             "`glistering' is an archaic term" [syn: {aglitter(p)},
             {coruscant}, {fulgid}, {glinting}, {glistering}, {glittery},
              {scintillant}, {scintillating}, {sparkling(a)}, {sparkly}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "glittering":
     blinking, blinky, brave, bravura, braw, chichi, coruscant,
     coruscating, daring, dashing, dressy, exhibitionistic, flashing,
     flashy, flaunting, frilly, frothy, gallant, gay, glimmering,
     glimmerous, glimmery, glistening, glistering, glittery, jaunty,
     jazzy, rakish, scintillant, scintillating, scintillescent,
     shimmering, shimmery, showy, snazzy, spangly, sparkling, splashy,
     splurgy, sporty, tinselly, twinkling, twinkly