to glimmer

Examples

• All

• At night, TV sets glimmered eerily through open windows in small villages that whirred by.

  Academic text (1999)

• His eyes are drawn to something glimmering on the floor across the room.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Boy, just seeing the sun kind of glimmer across the tops of them, they really do look pretty.

• Sit back and watch them glimmer, they're starting to grow.

  Around the Fire (1998)

• I love how the ring just glimmers.

  Almost Christmas (2016)

• Another light, closer to the ground, glimmered with a warm, orange glow.

  Fiction book (1993)

• A few tears had frozen on her lower lashes, glimmering like crystals.

  Fiction book (1990)

• In many places, light streamed and glimmered through an intricate lace work of gaps in the walls.

• Beneath its canopy, everything glimmered faintly with the magic that emanated from the walls.

  Fiction book (1992)

• The sun's rim touched the hills; its glimmering disk sank and hid behind the darkening heights.

  Fiction book (1990)

Synonyms

S

to shine

vsto glimmer

409 1.0

To send out or reflect light and look bright

is specifically a faint, unsteady kind of light not broadly bright

G

to glow

vsto glimmer

197 1.2

To shine with a steady soft light

is unsteady and faint rather than steady continuous light

F

to flicker

vsto glimmer

66 3.6

Move or shine in quick unsteady ways

is slower and more faint rather than rapid and jerky

S

to shimmer

vsto glimmer

59 4.3

To shine with a soft, slightly moving light

is fainter and more unsteady than a soft steady shine

G

to glisten

vsto glimmer

32 4.1

Shine with a soft light, like when wet or polished

is a faint, unsteady shine rather than a reflected wet gloss

G

to gleam

vsto glimmer

31 1.9

To shine softly, often on a smooth or wet surface

is dimmer and less bright, focusing on unsteady light

G

to glint

vsto glimmer

17 3.9

To shine briefly with a small flash as light bounces off something

is a faint, longer unsteady shine rather than a single flash

T

twinkling

vsto glimmer

10 3.3

Shining with small bright flashes of light

is a faint unsteady light rather than a clearly sparkling one

G

to glister

vsto glimmer

• Archaic

1 8.8

To shine with small bright flashes

is weaker and more unsteady rather than sparkling and bright

F

to flimmer

vsto glimmer

• UK

1 9.1

To move or shine in a small unsteady way

is a faint, unsteady shine rather than a steady glow

Antonyms

D

to dim

45 2.4

To become less bright or make a light weaker

D

to darken

38 3.3

Make or become less bright, for example a room

How Bright

to flash

137 1.0

to sparkle

33 1.0

glint

19 2.9

to glow

197 1.2

to glimmer

11 3.9

Surface Forms

Etymology