Glitter
['glɪtə] or ['ɡlɪtɚ]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of shining with a bright reflected light.
(noun.) the occurrence of a small flash or spark.
(verb.) be shiny, as if wet; 'His eyes were glistening'.
Typed by Hannah--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam; as, a glittering sword.
(v. i.) To be showy, specious, or striking, and hence attractive; as, the glittering scenes of a court.
(n.) A bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage.
Checked by Irving
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Glisten, glister, sparkle, gleam, flare, glare, make a splendid show.
n. Sparkle, glister, lustre, brilliancy, splendor, brightness, shine, radiance.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See GLARE]
Edited by Craig
Definition
v.i. to glisten to sparkle with light: to be splendid: to be showy.—n. lustre: brilliancy.—adjs. Glitt′erand (Spens.) sparkling glittering; Glitt′ering shining: splendid: brilliant.—adv. Glitt′eringly.
Editor: Vlad
Examples
- We have told our story of Europe; the reader may judge whether the glitter of the German sword is exceptionally blinding. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They looked, and saw a glitter through the trees. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a glitter of moisture on his brow. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I fixedly looked at the street-stones, where the door-lamp shone, and counted them and noted their shapes, and the glitter of wet on their angles. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The deadly glitter in his eyes shone steady and straight into mine. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The bag is opened, and several quarts of tin money shower down upon the stage till it is quite glorified with the glitter. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- She pursued her embroidery carefully and quickly, but her eyelash twinkled, and then it glittered, and then a drop fell. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Their eyes glittered through their tangle of hair, their naked nostrils were full of shadow. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Eliza turned to the glass, and the scissors glittered as one long lock after another was detached from her head. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She had a white cloth over her face, said I, but her eyes glittered. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Thomasin's cheek was flushed to a pitch far beyond that which it had reached before her troubles, and her eyes glittered. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- They had no depth or change; they glittered, and they opened and shut. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Her eyes glittered, her colour was deepened on cheek and lip. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Cold and glittering devils! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But when I looked at my purchase, at home, where no glittering blades came into competition with it, I was astonished to see how handsome it was. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There are diamonds glittering on the hand that holds the screen. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Their icy and glittering peaks shone in the sunlight over the clouds. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Shirley, Shirley, I should have liked to speak one word to him before he went, she murmured, while the tears gathered glittering in her eyes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- As the years went on, she lost more and more count of the world, she seemed rapt in some glittering abstraction, almost purely unconscious. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It might pass for the present, he said; but he would yet see me glittering like a parterre. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The object glitters and sinks. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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