Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of glisten.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Reflecting light readily or in large amounts; having a surface luster; reflecting light directly rather than scattering it.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. reflecting light
Examples
“Three pebbles, cool and glistening from the river, fell wet into his palm.”
“Kentucky-bred Big Brown, his skin glistening in the morning sun, looked as if he was ready to get it on again as he was bathed outside Barn 22 on Sunday.”
“A few yards away, just up from the white beach, a group of Sisters rested upon loungers in glistening nakedness, while a tall, lean Harlequin, a Mandroid pleasure server, offered them cold drinks.”
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“He hesitated for one eternal moment, fangs extended to their full length, throbbing, dripping the essence of his need onto Bimbette, her perfect skin glistening in the dim light.”
“Twinkling flashbulbs lit up Centre Court like fireworks in the night when Sampras kissed the trophy once again, his eyes glistening from the tears he had shed moments earlier after he whacked his final service winner to beat Patrick Rafter 6-7”
“We do not know what impulse sends up the water-lily from the stagnant ooze in glistening white, and lays a mauve mantle over the wistaria that feeds upon corruption; nor why two plants of the same genus in the same conditions should be so differently coloured as are the blue and yellow gentian.”
“On sidewalks were throngs of children, and babies in glistening perambulators pushed by nurses in full skirts, white caps and aprons.”
“Each door and window was framed in glistening green; the bright prints shone out still brighter from their background of glossy leaves.”
“The bananas are supposed to come out the microwave tender and glistening from the honey, instead mine emerged shrunk and awful-looking: (”
“He said that the biggest problem with 3D is that the effects are very shiny and a lot of glistening, which is difficult to get to look right in 3D.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘glistening’.
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Fairylike
fairylike, enchanted, pixieish, pixyish, impish, mischievous, fluttery, magical, bewitching, enchanting, fey, otherworldly and 126 more...
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moreover and apropos of nothing
l'aspirateur
esprit
coquillage
treble
loquacious
verbose
aristocracy
aristo
aristocrat
aristocratic
antwerp
implore
exudein situ, frequency, fluent, counterpoint, no admittance, trespass, canvas, caravan, rapture, tendril, sonicity, succor and 25 more...
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kingofbash's Words
bash, poleaxed, salacious, libertine, charlatan, aplomb, fortuitous, finagle, apoplectic, debutante, carte blanche, aardvark and 472 more...
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Wordwild's Delights
Delightful words to read and use
plangent, ribald, titubant, sidereal, pelagic, improvident, dolorous, parlous, baleful, precatory, pied, mephitic and 247 more...
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effleurer's Words
languor, nincompoop, masquerade, envelop, deceit, guttersnipe, undulating, ululation, ridiculous, insufferable, loverly, eternity and 89 more...
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savage215's Words
pipe, yankee, knickerbocker, tennis, plasma, magma, volcano, car, truck, television, tv, word and 445 more...
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Hilary's List
Just a list of words I like
wellspring, mystery, wonderment, intrinsic, artisan, enchantment, magic, transience, incomplete, impermanent, imperfect, resonance and 163 more...
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Love
A general collection of the sort of words that make me happy when I hear or read them in everyday conversation and writing.
velleities, discombobulated, boggle, breathtaking, enchanting, siren, luscious, moment, fiasco, delirium, darling, ethereal and 215 more...
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antinastar's Words
fug, alb, sheisty, moribund, noisome, scampo, undulate, sputum, glistening, labial, behoove, cerulean and 60 more...
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lostinthought17's list
hippopotomonstros..., myriad, rubbish, idiosyncrasy, glistening, retribution, manipulation, jug, superfluous, factious, liminal
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tmerkley's list
Art collages, journaling
life, glory, gift, share, serve, music, glistening, silence, truth, compassion, choice, love and 4 more...
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of all things bright
light words.
effulgent, lustrous, incandescent, dazzling, luminous, lambent, lucent, glistening, light, luster, brilliance, twinkle and 14 more...
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Light
words about light
lucent, lambent, glimmering, aglow, pearly, shimmery, scintillation, flouresce, starshine, halogen, mercury vapor, sodium vapor and 28 more...
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conceptual delight
An ever expanding collection of my favorite words and phrases...
bliss, radiant, enchanted, glistening, ardour, lucid, iridescent feathers, helical trajectories, sleeping aboard t..., a fruitful loom, like stones off a..., my souls trapeze and 5 more...
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Eyes~
sparkling, mischevious, glinting, deep, alluring, warm, frigid, verdant, lackadaisical, glistening, animated, intense and 15 more...
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you write such pretty words
words that are pretty.
sparkle, shimmer, haze, sunlight, starlight, mist, illuminate, ocean, sunrise, sunset, serendipity, orchard and 84 more...
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GHibbs My adjectival use: 'Children often love glistening lights.' Aug 22, 2011