glimmering

Speech parts

1. glimmering - Noun

2. glimmering - Verb

Meaning

of Glimmer

Faint, unsteady light; a glimmer.

A faint view or idea; a glimpse; an inkling.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

intimation inkling glimmer firefly twinkle light shining blazing coruscant glitter wink sparkle smouldering notion bright
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Antonyms

black dirtying dark flat dull dim
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Hypernyms

suggestion

Phrases with the word

glimmering shoe material glimmering embroidery

Examples

It seems to me the charm of etching is the glimmering through of the white paper even in the shadows so that almost everything sparkles or suggest sparkles. Samuel Palmer

There, by the starlit fences, The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs. A. E. Housman

On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net. Czesław Miłosz

Oh, rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain; Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun. George Crabbe

Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast. George William Russell

Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern. Mario Vargas Llosa

Close letter words and terms

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