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Meaning of GLEAMING

Pronunciation:  gl'eeming

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 Definition: 
  1. [n]  an appearance of reflected light
  2. [n]  a flash of light (especially reflected light)
  3. [adj]  bright with a steady but subdued shining; "from the plane we saw the city below agleam with lights"; "the gleaming brass on the altar"; "Nereids beneath the nitid moon"
 
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 Synonyms: agleam, bright, gleam, gleam, glimmer, glow, lambency, nitid
 
 See Also: effulgence, flash, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency, shine

 

 

Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: aglow, beaming, beamy, blushing, bright and sunny, buffed, burning, burnished, candescent, finished, flushing, furbished, glace, glassy, glazed, gleamy, glinting, glistening, glossy, glowing, illuminant, incandescent, irradiative, lacquered, lamping, light as day, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative, luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lustrous, orient, polished, radiant, rubbed, rutilant, rutilous, satiny, sheeny, shellacked, shining, shiny, silken, silky, sleek, slick, starbright, starlike, starry, streaming, suffused, sunny, sunshiny, varnished, velvety
 

 

 

 

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