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View synonyms for glimmering

glimmering

[ glim-er-ing ]

noun

  1. a faint or unsteady light; glimmer.
  2. a faint glimpse or idea; inkling.


adjective

  1. shining faintly or unsteadily; shimmering.
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Other Words From

  • glimmer·ing·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of glimmering1

Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; glimmer, -ing 1, -ing 2
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Example Sentences

A cell observed under a microscope is “refulgent, glimmering, alive.”

The COP26 climate summit has been largely focused on those inside the glimmering Scottish Event Campus.

As climate lawsuits proceed across the United States and across the world, Saad says there are glimmerings of that emerging.

As I drove home that night around eight, Long Island Sound was pitch-black, apart from the glimmering reflection of light poles.

I was very young and I thought that the whole experience was a wonderful adventure and a glimmering portal to the future.

For a brief glimmering moment last week, progressive Democrats could imagine Bill de Blasio as the future face of their party.

Beyond this the darkness of the village was accentuated by a light here and there, glimmering from the window of some cottage.

Out among the mass of red and yellow gold trailed a strand of frosty, glimmering pearls.

The real agriculturists were beginning to get a glimmering of light upon this question.

In this plight I pressed on toward a light glimmering faintly through the blinding snow.

Approaching it from the west the first glimmering of it you have is over one end of the House of Correction.

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