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

My only qualm here was the edges of the filmed footage have been sharpened away by gleamingly untroubled animation.

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The flowers are sparkling and gleaming, like they were just professionally polished.

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The lady wore a long fur coat, the gentleman a gleaming silk top hat.

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There she found the housemaid, Margaret, energetically polishing the already gleaming brass door handle.

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The locomotive was a gleaming scarlet, with a forbidding front grille of inky black.

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