shining

Plural: shinings

Noun

• the work of making something smooth and shiny by rubbing or waxing it
  • "the shining of shoes provided a meager living"
• A bright emission of light; a gleam.

Verb

• be bright by reflecting or casting light
• emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light
• be shiny, as if wet
• be distinguished or eminent
• be clear and obvious
  • "A shining example"
• have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink
• throw or flash the light of (a lamp)
• touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
• experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion
• make (a surface) shine
• climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
• present participle and gerund of shine

Adjective Satellite

• marked by exceptional merit
  • "had shining virtues and few faults"
  • "a shining example"
• made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow
  • "rows of shining glasses"
• reflecting light
  • "shining white enamel"

Adj

• Emitting light.
• Reflecting light.
• Having a high polish or sheen.
• Having exceptional merit.

Adjective

• Emitting or reflecting light; brilliantly outstanding.

Examples

• a shining example
• His perfect seven-letter word was a shining example of strategic play.

Synonyms

beam, bright, burnished, clamber, fall, gleam, glint, glisten, glistening, glitter, glossy, glow, lustrous, polish, polishing, radiate, reflect, scramble, sheeny, shin, shine, shinny, shiny, skin, smooth, smoothen, sputter, strike, struggle, aglow, alight, beamful, beamsome, beamy, brilliant, effulgent, fulgent, gleamy, glisteny, glowing, illuminating, lambent, lighted, lit, lucent, luciferous, lucific, luminant, luminiferous, luminous, mirrorlike, mirrory, orient, profulgent, radiant, refulgent, relucent, resplendent, shining, zazzy

Antonyms

dark

Related Words

fervent, phosphorescent

Anagrams of shining