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

  Shiny \Shin"y\, a. [Compar. {Shinier}; superl. {Shiniest}.]
     Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Like distant thunder on a shiny day.     --Dryden.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  shiny
       adj 1: reflecting light; "glistening bodies of swimmers"; "the
              horse's glossy coat"; "lustrous auburn hair"; "saw the
              moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet";
              "shining white enamel" [syn: {glistening}, {glossy}, {lustrous},
               {sheeny}, {shining}]
       2: having a shiny surface or coating; "glazed fabrics"; "glazed
          doughnuts" [syn: {glazed}] [ant: {unglazed}]
       3: made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a
          sheen or glow; "bright silver candlesticks"; "a burnished
          brass knocker"; "she brushed her hair until it fell in
          lustrous auburn waves"; "rows of shining glasses"; "shiny
          black patents" [syn: {bright}, {burnished}, {lustrous}, {shining}]
       4: abounding with sunlight; "a bright sunny day"; "one shining
          norming"- John Muir; "when it is warm and shiny" [syn: {bright},
           {shining}, {sunshiny}, {sunny}]
       [also: {shiniest}, {shinier}]

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

  114 Moby Thesaurus words for "shiny":
     aglow, beaming, beamy, bleached, blushing, bright,
     bright and sunny, buffed, burning, burnished, candescent, clean,
     cleanly, coruscating, dainty, dazzling, dirt-free, fair,
     fastidious, finished, flashing, flashy, flickering, flushing,
     fresh, fulgent, furbished, glace, glassy, glazed, gleaming, gleamy,
     glinting, glistening, glittering, glossy, glowing, illuminant,
     immaculate, incandescent, irradiative, kosher, lacquered, lambent,
     lamping, light as day, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant,
     luminative, luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lustrous,
     nonpolluted, of cleanly habits, orient, polished, pure, radiant,
     ritually pure, rubbed, rutilant, rutilous, satiny, scintillating,
     sheeny, shellacked, shimmering, shimmery, shined, shining, silken,
     silky, sleek, slick, smut-free, smutless, sparkling, spotless,
     stainless, starbright, starlike, starry, streaming, suffused,
     sunny, sunshiny, sweet, tahar, tubbed, twinkling, unadulterated,
     unbesmirched, unblemished, unblotted, undefiled, unmuddied,
     unpolluted, unsmirched, unsmudged, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained,
     unsullied, untainted, untarnished, varnished, velvety,
     well-scrubbed, well-washed, white, whitened
  
  

















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