Synonyms of the word glimmer


GLIMMERFLASH - GLEAM - GLEAMING - GLIMMERING - INKLING - INTIMATION - RADIATE - SUGGESTION

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.

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.

gleaming

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

glimmering

  • v. present participle of glimmer.
  • n. A glimmer.

inkling

  • n. A slight suspicion or hint.
  • n. (dialect) Inclination, desire.
  • v. present participle of inkle.

intimation

  • n. The act of intimating; also, the thing intimated.
  • n. Announcement; declaration.
  • n. A hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice; a remote or ambiguous reference.

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.

suggestion

  • n. (countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for).
  • n. (uncountable) The act of suggesting.
  • n. (countable, psychology) Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
  • n. (law, countable) information, insinuation, speculation, as opposed to a sworn testimony and evidence.

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