Synonyms of the word

lustre

• n. (British spelling) Alternative form of luster (shine, etc.).
• v. (British spelling) Alternative form of luster.
• n. (British spelling) Alternative form of luster (a lustrum).

brightness

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

brilliancy

• n. a shining quality; brilliance.
• n. An act of being brilliant.
• n. (chess) A spectacular and beautiful game of chess, generally featuring sacrificial attacks and unexpected…

effulgence

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

glaze

• n. (ceramics) The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing…
• n. A transparent or semi-transparent layer of paint.
• n. An edible coating applied to food.
• n. (meteorology) A smooth coating of ice formed on objects due to the freezing of rain; glaze ice.
• n. Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.
• n. A glazing oven. See glost oven.
• v. (transitive) To install windows.
• v. (transitive, ceramics, painting) To apply a thin, transparent layer of coating.
• v. (intransitive) To become glazed or glassy.
• v. (intransitive) For eyes to take on an uninterested appearance.

luster

• n. Shine, polish or sparkle.
• n. By extension, brilliance, attractiveness or splendor.
• n. Refinement, polish or quality.
• n. A candlestick, chandelier, girandole, etc. generally of an ornamental character.
• n. A substance that imparts lustre to a surface, such as plumbago or a glaze.
• n. Lusterware.
• n. A fabric of wool and cotton with a lustrous surface, used for women's dresses.
• v. (intransitive) To gleam, have luster.
• v. (transitive) To give luster, distinguish.
• v. (transitive) To give a coating or other treatment to impart physical luster.
• n. A lustrum, quinquennium, a period of five years, originally the interval between Roman censuses.
• n. One who lusts.

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.

sheen

• adj. (rare, poetic) beautiful, good-looking, attractive; radiant; shiny.
• n. splendor; radiance; shininess.
• v. To shine; to glisten.
• n. The letter ش in the Arabic script.

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.

shininess

• n. the visual property of something shining with reflective light; shine.
• n. (computing) the coefficient of specular reflectivity associated with the surface of an object being displayed.

splendor

• n. Great light, luster or brilliance.
• n. Magnificent appearance, display or grandeur.
• n. Great fame or glory.

splendour

• n. British spelling standard spelling of splendor.