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gleaming
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun gleaming has 2 senses
- gleaming(n = noun.event) gleam, glimmer - a flash of light (especially reflected light); Array is a kind of flash
- gleaming(n = noun.attribute) gleam, glow, lambency - an appearance of reflected light; Array is a kind of effulgence, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency, shine
Derived form verb gleam2
Adjective gleaming has 1 sense
- gleaming(s = adj.all) agleam, nitid - bright with a steady but subdued shining; "from the plane we saw the city below agleam with lights"; "the gleaming brass on the altar"; "Nereids beneath the nitid moon"
THESAURUS
gleaming
aglow, beaming, beamy, blushing, bright and sunny, buffed, burning, burnished, candescent, finished, flushing, furbished, glace, glassy, glazed, gleamy, glinting, glistening, glossy, glowing, illuminant, incandescent, irradiative, lacquered, lamping, light as day, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative, luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lustrous, orient, polished, radiant, rubbed, rutilant, rutilous, satiny, sheeny, shellacked, shining, shiny, silken, silky, sleek, slick, starbright, starlike, starry, streaming, suffused, sunny, sunshiny, varnished, velvety
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