Word Meanings - SHINING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Emitting light, esp. in a continuous manner; radiant; as, shining lamps; also, bright by the reflection of light; as, shining armor. "Fish . . . with their fins and shining scales." Milton. 2. Splendid; illustrious; brilliant; distinguished;

Additional info about word: SHINING

1. Emitting light, esp. in a continuous manner; radiant; as, shining lamps; also, bright by the reflection of light; as, shining armor. "Fish . . . with their fins and shining scales." Milton. 2. Splendid; illustrious; brilliant; distinguished; conspicious; as, a shining example of charity. 3. Having the surface smooth and polished; -- said of leaves, the surfaces of shells, etc. Syn. -- Glistening; bright; radiant; resplendent; effulgent; lustrous; brilliant; glittering; splendid; illustrious. -- Shining, Brilliant, Sparking. Shining describes the steady emission of a strong light, or the steady reflection of light from a clear or polished surface. Brilliant denotes a shining of great brightness, but with gleams or flashes. Sparkling implies a fitful, intense shining from radiant points or sparks, by which the eye is dazzled. The same distinctions obtain when these epithets are figuratively applied. A man of shining talents is made conspicious by possessing them; if they flash upon the mind with a peculiarly striking effect, we call them brilliant; if his brilliancy is marked by great vivacity and occasional intensity, he is sparkling. True paradise . . . inclosed with shining rock. Milton. Some in a brilliant buckle bind her waist, Some round her neck a circling light display. Gay. His sparkling blade about his head he blest. Spenser.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SHINING)

• Beaming
• Shining
• gleaming
• bright
• radiant
• beautiful
• transparent
• translucid
• Bright
• brilliant
• burnished
• luminous
• lucid
• sparkling
• limpid
• clever
• happy
• witty
• joyous
• cheerful
• Glowing
• intense
• hot
• ardent
• fiery
• fervent
• fervid
• Lucid
• resplendent
• Incident
• clear
• trans parent
• crystalline
• pellucid
• distinct
• intelligible
• rational
• perspicuous
• orderly
• lucent
• easily under
• stood
• Radiant
• lustrous
• glittering
• splendid
• shining
• glorious
• beauteous

Related words: (words related to SHINING)

• UNDERDOER
  One who underdoes; a shirk.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• PARENTHETIC; PARENTHETICAL
  1. Of the nature of a parenthesis; pertaining to, or expressed in, or as in, a parenthesis; as, a parenthetical clause; a parenthetic remark. A parenthetical observation of Moses himself. Hales. 2. Using or containing parentheses.
• LUSTROUS
  Bright; shining; luminous. " Good sparks and lustrous." Shak. -- Lus"trous*ly, adv.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• UNDERPLOT
  1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison.
• PARENTHESIS
  One of the curved lines which inclose a parenthetic word or phrase. Note: Parenthesis, in technical grammar, is that part of a sentence which is inclosed within the recognized sign; but many phrases and sentences which are punctuated by commas
• UNDERNICENESS
  A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety.
• UNDERSOIL
  The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
• UNDERDOLVEN
  p. p. of Underdelve.
• BEAUTIFUL
  Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind. A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram. Lord Kames. Syn. -- Handsome; elegant; lovely; fair; charming; graceful;
• BEAMFUL
  Beamy; radiant.
• SHINTIYAN; SHINTYAN
  A kind of wide loose drawers or trousers worn by women in Mohammedan countries.
• DISTINCTNESS
  1. The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things. The soul's . . . distinctness from the body. Cudworth. 2. Nice discrimination; hence, clearness; precision; as, he stated
• RATIONALIZATION
  The act or process of rationalizing.
• SPLENDIDIOUS
  Splendid.
• TRANSCEND
  1. To climb; to mount. 2. To be transcendent; to excel.
• UNDERNIME
  1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman.
• UNDERPROP
  To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton.
• TRANSMUTATIONIST
  One who believes in the transmutation of metals or of species.
• SPILLET FISHING; SPILLIARD FISHING
  A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.
• DILUCIDATION
  The act of making clear. Boyle.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• PLUNDERER
  One who plunders or pillages.