Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of scintillate.
- adj. That scintillates with brief flashes of light; sparkling.
- adj. Brilliantly clever, amusing or witty.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. brilliantly clever
- adj. having brief brilliant points or flashes of light
- adj. marked by high spirits or excitement
Etymologies
- From scintillate + -ing. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I overdid it, she thought in terror, as she recalled her scintillating remarks and elaborate manner.”
“Pointe's performances have been described as scintillating and legendary, and she spent a few minutes with us to give us the lowdown on what to expect.”
“What a "scintillating" speech the new leader made, according to the Mirror.”
The Guardian: Ed Miliband is ahead of the pack while pundits are stuck in Gridlock Gulch
“The Good Foot, LondonAn all-new night of all-old jams, The Good Foot is a funk and rare groove shakedown playing the kind of scintillating sonics that are just as much fun to scratch your beard to in a knowledgable muso way as they are to cut some serious rug to.”
“McChesney called it "scintillating" as he build a "mountain (ous)" historical record on what no one had ever written.”
“And -- and I think that was the sense that -- that a lot of people of my age had about the White House, you know, the best and the brightest, that it was a place, it was an office that demanded a kind of scintillating intellect.”
“Bafana Bafana national soccer team would deliver a "scintillating" performance in their World Cup qualifier against Congo on Saturday.”
“This time it was McAnuff and Jimmy Kebe who joined forces to torment the City defence in a first half display rightly described by manager Brian McDermott as 'scintillating'.”
“There was no doubting the superior class that the visitors had to offer - "scintillating",”
“Moyes described his side's first 20 minutes as "scintillating" but admitted Arteta was lucky to stay on the pitch after poking Morten Gamst Pedersen in the cheek and eye.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘scintillating’.
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bbc uk china vocab.
conservationists, estimate, threats, infertility, eating away at, endangered, furry, panel, in trouble, gongs, triumphed, caps and 1007 more...
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Fairylike
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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dolphins gambolling
based on quote by Hesychius of Batos thornbush
who it is believed lived sometime between 700 and 900 AD
The heart that is freed from imaginings ends up by producing in itself hol...reflection, examen, nepsis, ruminate, contemplate, muller, soul-searching, reflect, flash, coruscate, redound, debuscope and 16 more...
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AngelFace's list
Words that build up, edify, educate, encourage, deepen understanding, increase knowledge, and make the world a richer, fuller, more colorful world.
disseminate, epiphany, transcend, scintillating, effervescent, radiant, iridescence, lamentations, mica, labrynthine, introspective, importune and 1 more...
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Words that make me want to drink sing...
You know that feeling when you hear a word that you just want to roll it around in your mouth, experiment with it, find its edges and texture. Words that you want to clink around in a glass with so...
melt, agronomy, cartilage, vexatious, scintillating, carrion, caryopsis, crystallite, haulm, alegar, maltster, carpel and 35 more...
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Words Stephenie Meyer Overuses
A collection of words author Stephenie Meyer overuses and abuses in her 'Twilight' series of young adult vampire fiction. Every time you read one of these words in her books, you will GRIMACE and C...
chagrin, grimace, chuckle, smirk, whispered, lope, scintillating, marble, topaz, smoldering, smolder, perfect and 30 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1907 more...
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magoosh1
aberration, aboveboard, abysmal, ace, affable, aghast, alacrity, ambiguous, ambivalent, ameliorate, amenable, amiable and 222 more...
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Words For Novel
viridity, effigy, paragon, congested, acrid, lilting, clandestine, plethora, accolade, sardonic, naïve, reckoning and 285 more...
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Pretty Words
Pretty words that also have pretty meanings. They're special...add your own prettiness.
ethereal, ephemeral, scintillating, chortle, murmur, sigh, burblewall
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What Do You Mean ?
U Gotta Know These.......
falter, ruddy, flounder, pallid, fumble, founder, labile, titular, tacit, pragmatic, fatalism, jaded and 112 more...
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Wenderful's Whirled World of Blurred ...
Lexicon I likez... in no order whatsoever.
omnivalence, cerebration, sprachgefühl, schadenfreude, rutabaga, septuagenarian, foible, vainglorious, leviathan, remunerative, catastrophize, ancillary and 182 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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My Revised GRE Preparation List
Words from the new GRE : This list consists mostly of words from the book Magoosh-GRE-vocab-ebook, which is one of the best vocab materials available, especially if you have started preparing one ...
alacrity, prosaic, veracity, paucity, contrite, trite, maintain, laconic, pugnacious, disparate, egregious, innocuous and 533 more...
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Aequoria's list
affect, deleterious, nuance, pliant, verbatim, pertinent, latter, municipality, provincial, voyeuristic, circumlocution, wane and 798 more...
Tweets
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fbharjo scintillating early! May 4, 2011
milosrdenstvi "To return to this scintillating topic of conversation..." Nov 17, 2009