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| Main Entry: | glitter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brilliance, sparkle |
| Synonyms: | beam, brightness, display, flash, glamour, glare, gleam, glint, glisten, glitz, luster, pageantry, radiance, sheen, shimmer, shine, show, splendor, twinkle, zap*, coruscation, gaudiness, glister, scintillation, showiness, tinsel |
| Antonyms: | dullness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | glitter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sparkle |
| Synonyms: | coruscate, flash, glance, glare, gleam, glimmer, glint, glisten, glow, scintillate, shimmer, shine, spangle, twinkle, glister |
| Main Entry: | flicker |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sparkle, flutter |
| Synonyms: | blare, blaze, blink, burn, dance, flare, flash, flit, fluctuate, glance, gleam, glimmer, glint, glitter, glow, hover, oscillate, quaver, quiver, scintillate, shimmer, swing, tremble, twinkle, vibrate, waver, flitter |
| Main Entry: | gaiety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happiness, celebration |
| Synonyms: | animation, brightness, cheer, color, conviviality, effervescence, elation, entertainment, exhilaration, festivity, frolic, fun, geniality, gladness, glee, glitter, good humor*, hilarity, joie de vivre, jollity, lightheartedness, liveliness, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, radiance, revel, revelry, shindig*, sparkle, sport, vivacity, blitheness, brilliance, colorfulness, grins, high spirits, joviality, joyousness, pleasantness, reveling, showiness, sprightliness, whoopee, wingding |
| Antonyms: | sadness, solemnity, unhappiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gild |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | embellish, decorate |
| Synonyms: | adorn, aureate, beautify, bedeck, brighten, coat, deck, dress up, embroider, enhance, enrich, garnish, glitter, grace, ornament, overlay, paint, plate, varnish, wash, whitewash*, aurify, begild, engild, tinsel |
| Notes: | gild means to decorate with gold leaf or liquid gold while a guild is a formal association of people with similar interests |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gleam |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sparkle |
| Synonyms: | beam, burn, coruscate, flare, flash, glance, glimmer, glint, glisten, glitter, glow, radiate, scintillate, shimmer, shine, twinkle, glister |
| Antonyms: | dull |
| Main Entry: | glimmer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sparkle |
| Synonyms: | blink, coruscate, fade, flash, flicker, glance, gleam, glint, glisten, glitter, glow, scintillate, shimmer, shine, twinkle, glister |
| Main Entry: | glint |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sparkle |
| Synonyms: | flash, glance, gleam, glimmer, glitter, look, shine, trace, twinkle |
| Main Entry: | glisten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shimmer |
| Synonyms: | coruscate, flash, flicker, glance, glare, gleam, glimmer, glint, glitter, glow, scintillate, shine, sparkle, twinkle, glister |
| Main Entry: | glow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burning, brightness |
| Synonyms: | bloom, blossom, blush, effulgence, flush, glare, gleam, glimmer, glitter, gusto, heat, intensity, light, luminosity, passion, radiance, ray, splendor, vividness, warmth, afterglow, brilliance, incandescence, lambency, phosphorescence |
| Main Entry: | glow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | burn, radiate |
| Synonyms: | blare, blaze, blush, brighten, color, crimson, fill, flame, flare, flush, gleam, glimmer, glisten, glitter, ignite, kindle, light, mantle, pink, redden, rose, rouge, shine, smolder, thrill, tingle, twinkle, be suffused, pinken |
| Main Entry: | luster |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gloss, shine |
| Synonyms: | brightness, burnish, dazzle, effulgence, glaze, gleam, glint, glitter, glow, iridescence, polish, radiance, sheen, shimmer, sparkle, afterglow, brilliance, brilliancy, candescence, incandescence, lambency, luminousness, opalescence, refulgence, resplendence |
| Antonyms: | darkness, dullness, matte |
| Main Entry: | pageantry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flashy display |
| Synonyms: | affectation, array, ceremonial, ceremony, extravagance, fanfare, flourish, formality, glitter, grandeur, magnificence, ostentation, pageant, parade, pomp, pomposity, show, spectacle, splash, splendor, grandiosity, panoply |
| Main Entry: | quiver |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shaking, vibration |
| Synonyms: | convulsion, flash, glimmer, glitter, oscillation, palpitation, shake, shimmer, shiver, shudder, sparkle, spasm, throb, tic, tremble, tremor, twinkle, pulsation |
| Antonyms: | quiet, stillness |
| Main Entry: | radiate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give off; scatter |
| Synonyms: | afford, beam, broadcast, circulate, diffuse, disseminate, distribute, diverge, emanate, emit, expand, gleam, glitter, illumine, irradiate, issue, pour, proliferate, propagate, ramble, shed, shine, spread, sprinkle, strew, throw out, transmit, yield, branch out, give out, light up, ramify, send out, shoot out, spread out |
| Antonyms: | collect, gather |
| Main Entry: | ray |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beam; indication |
| Synonyms: | bar, blaze, blink, emanation, flash, flicker, gleam, glimmer, glint, glitter, hint, light, patch, radiance, radiation, scintilla, shaft, shine, spark, sparkle, streak, stream, trace, wave, incandescence, irradiation, moonbeam, pencil, sunbeam |
| Main Entry: | shimmer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gleam |
| Synonyms: | flash, glimmer, glint, glisten, glitter, gloss, glow, iridescence, luster, sheen, spangle, spark, sparkle, twinkle, blinking, coruscation, diffused light, incandescence, phosphorescence, scintillation |
| Antonyms: | dullness |
| Main Entry: | spark |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flash, trace |
| Synonyms: | atom, beam, fire, flare, flicker, gleam, glint, glitter, glow, hint, jot, nucleus, ray, scintilla, scrap, sparkle, spit, vestige, scintillation |
| Main Entry: | twinkle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | glimmer, shine |
| Synonyms: | blink, coruscate, flash, flicker, gleam, glint, glisten, glitter, glow, illuminate, light, scintillate, shimmer, sparkle, wink, light up |
| Main Entry: | magnificence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | grandeur |
| Synonyms: | beauty, distinction, elegance, flourish, glitter, glory, grace, greatness, importance, lavishness, majesty, nobility, ostentation, pomp, post*, pulchritude, radiance, richness, show, splendor, style, brilliance, exaltedness, impressiveness, loftiness, luxuriousness, nobleness, ostentatiousness, resplendency, spectacularity, stateliness, sublimity, sumptuousness, swank* |
| Antonyms: | dullness, modesty, simplicity, ugliness, unostentatiousness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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