scintillant

[sin-tl-uhnt]

adjective

1. scintillating; scintillating; sparkling.

Other Word Forms

• scintillantly adverb
• unscintillant adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of scintillant¹

First recorded in 1600–10, scintillant is from the Latin word scintillant- (stem of scintillāns, present participle of scintillāre to send out sparks; flash). See scintilla, -ant

Example Sentences

Frahm walked freely between those two worlds all night, and made each feel strange and scintillant all over again.

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The twin yellow streams, scintillant, intersected, soaking me.

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Throughout the comedy she was at her scintillant best.

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And still more she cried when she raised her head and saw Edith's shower of scintillant hair, and the two little Lakes of Como brimming over with limpid tears.

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Stars scintillant, fire-hued, metallic, Topaz fruit of the deep-blue garden: Southward you go, my constellations, And leave me with the white day, alone.

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