gleaming

[glee-ming]

adjective

1. giving off or appearing to give off light or brightness; radiant; shining.

   A cold, gray light filtered down through the bushes and lay on the faintly gleaming sand.

   The newest release is a gleaming composite of epic, unabashedly pretty '70s songwriting and fancy-pants disco hedonism.

Other Word Forms

• gleamingly adverb
• ungleaming adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of gleaming¹

gleam ( def. ) + -ing ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

“The handmade shoe is alive and well in this shop,” he said, dressed in pressed black slacks and tinted sunglasses, chunky gold rings gleaming on his fingers.

From Los Angeles Times

He is one of the millions here struggling to get by amid the gleaming skyscrapers built by oil money.

From BBC

Inside the workshop, gleaming rows of polished pianos are packed in closely together.

From BBC

He vowed to “restore the city back to the gleaming capital that everybody wants it to be.”

From Los Angeles Times

Their old-money neighbors find the enormous, gleaming structure to be garish.

From Salon

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