Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An English name for the gleam exhibited at night by a school of herrings.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of brim.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Full to the brim; overflowing.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. filled to capacity
Examples
“Down in a hollow I hear the brimming note of the white-throated sparrow, -- brimming is the only word that expresses it, -- like "a beaker full of the warm South," -- such joy, such overflowing measure of bliss!”
“Expression brimming with hostility, she turned from him.”
“RIP, a profound phrase brimming with meaning for those of us who believe”
“She recalled brimming with confidence after Obama's historic inaugural address.”
“We had asked, just like in the ad, for the pepperoni to be placed on top, but there was no "brimming" here.”
“Here, appropriation and manipulation is all, but I left this big and often bewildering show feeling drained of energy and enthusiasm for a future so lacking in depth and so brimming with adolescent in-jokiness.”
“Next came bowls brimming with very salty pumpkin soup.”
“It is a scene too brimming with filial trust and desire to be dismissed as cliché, which is why it is played out in myriad households around the world.”
“It is a scene too brimming with filial trust and desire to be dismissed as cliché, which is why it is played out in myriad households around the world.”
“There is also the problem that Brazilian prisons are brimming with inmates serving time for trafficking because they were caught with amounts of pot above the legal limit.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘brimming’.
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LIT - Odyssey - key words and phrases
Key words of the Odyssey by Homer in English including all those famous repeating epitethons like
"bright-eyed Athene"
"wine-dark sea"
"rosy-fingered dawn"
"long suf...Odysseus, sea, Athene, goddess, land, Achaean, wind, wave, Ithaca, lead, Poseidon, mortal and 732 more...
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Energetic
braze, raze, brisance, brisant, rive, catalyze, whipsaw, crack, actinic, sublimate, animate, vitalize and 88 more...
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imm
immunogen, immobile, immiscible, shimmy, slimming, glimmer, immigrate, immutability, swimmingly, brimming, primming, skimming and 25 more...
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Words for Big
Words, terms and phrases that denote big, bigness, or making something bigger.
enlarge, giant, giantess, biggify, enormous, enhance, augment, whopper, swell, swollen, inflated, gigantic and 54 more...
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It Has a Name??
Yes. Yes it does.
aglet, armsaye, scroop, rowel, ferrule, rasceta, chanking, philtrum, frenulum, keeper, agelast, punt and 285 more...
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A few of my favorite definitions from...
I'm especially fond of ones written by Charles Sanders Peirce.
theodolite, illusion, buckie, frank, abstract-concrete, semidiagrammatic, object-object, vortex-filament, dod, parrock, cobler, weather-box and 354 more...
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Not Quite Physical Words
These are words I like or would like to use to describe people and things that aren't normally used. I guess it's really my poetic license list? This is a companion to Physical Words
slipping, uneasy, dusk, earthquake, dreamscape, wheat field, daybreak, honest, brimming, forgotten, desert, ocean and 12 more...
Tweets
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ruzuzu Beautiful! Apr 18, 2011
frogapplause The gleam exhibited at night by a school of herrings. Apr 17, 2011