What is another word for glimmering?

Pronunciation: [ɡlˈɪməɹɪŋ] (IPA)

When it comes to synonyms for the word glimmering, there are many options to choose from. Some of the most common synonyms include gleaming, sparkling, shining, glistening, twinkling, flickering, shimmering, and glowing. Each of these words brings a slightly different nuance to the meaning of glimmering, but all convey a sense of brightness and light. Whether you are writing poetry, creating a marketing campaign, or simply trying to spice up your everyday language, using synonyms for glimmering can help add depth and interest to your words. So go ahead and experiment with different words, and see which ones work best for you!

Synonyms for Glimmering:

What are the hypernyms for Glimmering?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Glimmering?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
  • hyponyms for glimmering (as nouns)

What are the opposite words for glimmering?

Antonyms for the word "glimmering" include darkness, shadow, obscurity, blackness, dullness, gloom, and murkiness. These words convey a sense of absence or lack of light, illumination or brightness. Darkness is the complete absence of light, while shadow refers to a shaded area or a lack of direct light. Obscurity and murkiness imply a lack of clarity or visibility. Dullness and gloom both denote a lack of brightness or cheerfulness. These antonyms highlight the contrast with "glimmering," which suggests a faint or flickering light, and convey a sense of dreariness, obscurity, or melancholy.

What are the antonyms for Glimmering?

Usage examples for Glimmering

Through the slow days and long nights retrospect gave birth thus to a glimmering perception; perception, its gropings not to be checked, to comprehension.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
Imagine before you fields of crushed ice, glimmering in the rising sunlight with shooting fires of sapphire and green; fields which have been slowly forced downward by strong currents from the north, and pounded and piled in jagged mountainous heaps for miles about the land.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Some of the twigs are already crackling and glimmering.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse

Famous quotes with Glimmering

  • Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.
    George William Russell
  • The Scorpio period of the year (at least in the Northern Hemisphere) is the time when the life force withdraws from all outer forms in nature and is in the seed. It is striking that the cultural symbol for this time of the year in the United States is the Halloween pumpkin with its insides removed, leaving only an empty shell with a blankly staring face. In fact, the jack-o-lantern is a symbol of death, a symbolic skull with the glimmering remains of the departed life force represented by the candle within it. Traditionally, the Halloween feast (the Eve of All Saints Day) was a time when the dead came back to life and when human beings in the physical body could most immediately contact departed spirits of all kinds, as well as their own patron saints. It is significant that children are allowed at this time to wander out at night, past their usual bed time, and that they are not supposed to go from house to house begging for food until the Sun (the symbol of physical ) has completely set!
    Stephen Arroyo
  • Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers Is reason to the soul; and as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky Not light us here, so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day: And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere, So pale grows reason at religion's sight, So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.
    John Dryden
  • Next morning, when the golden sunne was risen, And new had bid good morrow to the mountaines; When night her silver light had lockt in prison, Which gave a glimmering on the christall fountaines: Then ended sleepe, and then my cares began, Ev'n with the uprising of the silver swan.Oh, glorious sunne! quoth I, viewing the sunne, That lightenst everie thing but me alone: Why is my summer season almost done, My spring-time past, and ages autumne gone? My harvest's come, and yet I reapt no corne: My love is great, and yet I am forlorne.
    Richard Barnfield
  • Oh, rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain; Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun.
    George Crabbe

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