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| Main Entry: | twinkling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sparkling |
| Synonyms: | bright, shimmering, shining, flashing, gleaming, glimmering, glistening |
| Main Entry: | twinkling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a very short time |
| Synonyms: | blink, flash, instant, moment, second, shake, split second |
| Antonyms: | eternity, lifetime, aeon |
| 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: | instant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moment |
| Synonyms: | breath, crack, flash, jiffy*, juncture, minute, occasion, point, second, shake*, split second*, tick, time, twinkling*, while, wink*, bat of the eye, nothing flat, sec, short while, trice |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | jiffy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | instant |
| Synonyms: | breath, crack, flash, minute, moment, second, shake*, split second*, twinkling*, jiff, trice |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | minute |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brief time period |
| Synonyms: | breath, breathing, crack, flash, instant, jiffy*, moment, second, shake, split second, twinkling*, bat of an eye, min, mo, nothing flat, sec, short time, sixtieth of hour, sixty seconds |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | scintillating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bright, stimulating |
| Synonyms: | animated, brilliant, clever, dazzling, ebullient, exciting, glittering, lively, shining, smart, sparkling, sprightly, twinkling, witty, flashing, gleaming, glimmering, glinting |
| Antonyms: | blah, dull |
| Main Entry: | split second |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very short time |
| Synonyms: | flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, moment, twinkling, bat of an eye, blink of an eye, fraction of a second, half a second, microsecond, millisecond, nanosecond, nothing flat |
| Main Entry: | shimmering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | glimmering |
| Synonyms: | beaming, bright, glittering, glowing, scintillating, shining, sparkling, twinkling, glimmery, glistening, twinkly |
| Main Entry: | bright |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shining, glowing in appearance |
| Synonyms: | ablaze, alight, argent, beaming, blazing, brilliant, burning, dazzling, effulgent, fulgent, glaring, glittering, glossy, golden, illuminated, incandescent, intense, lambent, light, limpid, luminous, lustrous, polished, radiant, resplendent, scintillating, shimmering, shiny, sparkling, sunny, twinkling, vivid, aglow, auroral, burnished, coruscating, flashing, fulgid, gleaming, glistening, illumined, irradiated, lighted, mirrorlike, moonlit, phosphorescent, relucent, silvery, sunlit |
| Antonyms: | dark, dreary, dull, obscure, somber |
| Main Entry: | flash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shimmer, flicker |
| Synonyms: | beam, blaze, burst, dazzle, flame, flare, glance, glare, gleam, glimmer, glint, glisten, glitter, glow, illumination, imprint, impulse, luster, quiver, radiation, ray, reflection, shine, spark, sparkle, streak, stream, twinkle, twinkling, vision, bedazzlement, coruscation, incandescence, phosphorescence, scintillation |
| Main Entry: | moment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brief time period |
| Synonyms: | bit, breathing, crack, date, flash, instant, jiffy*, juncture, minute, occasion, point, second, shake, split second*, stage, tick*, time, twinkle*, twinkling*, while, wink*, hour, jiff, no time, nothing flat, point in time, sec, three winks, trice |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | second |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shortest interval of time |
| Synonyms: | flash, instant, jiffy*, moment, shake*, split second, twinkling*, wink, bat of an eye, nothing flat, sec |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tick |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clicking sound; one beat |
| Synonyms: | beat, blow, clack, click, flash, instant, minute, moment, pulse, rap, second, shake, tap, throb, twinkling, wink, clicking, metallic sound, pulsation, tapping, ticktock |
| Notes: | a tock is more resonant than a tick |
| Main Entry: | flash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | instant, split second |
| Synonyms: | breathing, burst, jiffy, minute, moment, outburst, shake, show, twinkling, trice |
| Main Entry: | wink |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moment |
| Synonyms: | flash*, instant, jiffy*, minute, second, shake*, split second*, twinkle*, twinkling* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flash |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shimmer, flicker |
| Synonyms: | beam, bedazzle, blaze, blink, coruscate, dazzle, flame, flare, glance, glare, gleam, glimmer, glint, glisten, glitter, glow, light, radiate, reflect, scintillate, shine, spangle, spark, sparkle, twinkle, incandesce, phosphoresce, shoot out |
| 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: | glance |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reflect light |
| Synonyms: | coruscate, flash, gleam, glimmer, glint, glisten, glitter, shimmer, shine, sparkle, twinkle |
| 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 |
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