shiningly
- adverb
- /ˈʃaɪnɪŋli/
- On the third landing, he tapped a door with signs of former working-class dignity: a shiningly polished brass doorknob, letterbox, and nameplate engraved with the name ROSS.
Examples
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Janice watches it too, their four eyes shiningly reflecting the electronic jiggle and their two mouths both open to make identical slots of darkness.
Fiction book (1990) -
The freshly cleaned car stood shiningly in the sunlight, turning heads as it passed by.
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Such a statement seemed outrageous and shiningly apparent at once.
Fiction book (1997) -
The stars shone brightly, lighting up the sky in a shiningly beautiful display.
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The diamond necklace sparkled shiningly under the chandelier, captivating everyone in the room.
Synonyms
In a way that has a lot of light or that looks happy
Shining with a very bright, strong light
In a bright, happy way that shows great joy
In a very bright and impressive way
In a very bright or very fast way
In a way that gives off bright light
Very brightly like a light, or showing strong feeling on someone's face
In a way that shines with many small bright flashes of light
In a way that shines brightly or looks very good
In a way that shines and seems very impressive
In a way that shines or sparkles to attract attention
In a way that gives light to make things more visible
In a soft, flickering light that makes things look bright
In a way that shows changing rainbow colors that shine
A person smiles in a bright, happy way
Antonyms
How Bright
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Shiningly comes from the verb shine, which means 'to give light' and appears in the word shiny. So when we use 'shiningly' in the literal sense, we mean something is done in a bright or glowing way.