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glimmery

glimmery

6.6
Shining with a soft, slightly flickering light
  • adjective
translation icon : brillante
  • Her dress sparkled with a glimmery texture, making her stand out at the party.

We are not in low lighting and it is still glimmery, shimmery.

Examples

  • The stars looked especially glimmery on that clear night in the countryside.

  • They don't have like, you know, kind of a glimmery glitter E tone to them.

  • Open her up and she is glimmery and shiny and I just want to rub it everywhere.

  • We are not in low lighting and it is still glimmery, shimmery.

    Tati

  • Let's go for something bronzy and summary and very glimmery and gilded.

  • It seems more like glimmery than these other two shimmers and it feels a little drier to the touch.

  • So I just dabbed and dabbed and dabbed that shade on there and see how the look is, I think pretty and you can really see it, and it's glimmery and fun.

  • They are lip Topper, glimmery, sparkly high shine glosses that do plump.

  • The fabric has a glimmery finish that catches the light beautifully.

Synonyms

twinkling
vsglimmery
3.3

Shining with small bright flashes of light

shines with softer gentler intermittent light rather than sparkle

Antonyms

dim
62 1.0

Not bright and having only a little light

dull
31 1.0

Not bright or shiny with weak colour

How Shiny

brilliant
14 3.0
sparkling
5 1.3
glossy
34 2.6
glimmery
6.6
matte
2 3.5

Surface Forms

glimmery positive

Morphology

glimmery = glimmer (transparent) = glimmer + y

Standard adjective formation from 'glimmer' with the productive suffix '-y', meaning 'having or characterized by a glimmer'.

Etymology

The word glimmery comes from glimmer, which means 'a faint, flickering light', plus the ending -y, which means 'full of'. So, think of candlelight or small waves catching the sun—glimmery means 'shining with a soft, flickering light'.