shiny
bright or glossy in appearance.
filled with light, as by sunshine.
rubbed or worn to a glossy smoothness, as clothes.
Origin of shiny
1Other words for shiny
1, 2 | brilliant, shining, gleaming, glistening |
Other words from shiny
- shin·i·ly, adverb
- shin·i·ness, noun
- un·shin·y, adjective
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How to use shiny in a sentence
For decades, an overwhelming majority of NBA draft picks have attended major conferences, which boast gargantuan budgets, shiny facilities and countless opportunities for exposure.
What Does Makur Maker Mean For The Future Of HBCU Sports? | Josh Planos | November 24, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightIf you tempered it correctly, it should look shiny when it hardens and snap when you take a bite.
Go full-on mad scientist by making your own Halloween candy | John Kennedy, Sandra Gutierrez G., Purbita Saha | October 30, 2020 | Popular-ScienceWhen Lee started to work again with his monkeys, he says, “I was amazed at how shiny the floors were.”
Instagram has more than a billion users and is arguably Facebook’s shiniest product for brands and creators, but it’s also not immune to bullying, harassment and toxicity as it has grown beyond a place for pretty, filtered pictures.
Social Shorts: Facebook attribution change on hold, Instagram gets more shoppable, turns 10 | Ginny Marvin | October 12, 2020 | Search Engine LandThe only trouble was that many buyers of these shiny new grown-up toys had no clue how to cook in them.
To Find Hope in American Cooking, James Beard Looked to the West Coast | John Birdsall | October 2, 2020 | Eater
Beneath the glow plates in the overhead, his pink scalp gleamed with the soft, burnished shininess of a well-polished apple.
Unwise Child | Gordon Randall GarrettHis eye caught an old tub, its shininess dulled, its hull faintly scarred.
Runaway | William MorrisonMr. Jabez gave premonitory symptoms of a small joke by increasing in shininess.
Rogues and Vagabonds | George R. SimsOut of all nature they felt their function was to extract the grayness and shininess.
Modern Painters, Volume V (of 5) | John RuskinHis friends had long remarked the disappearance of his shininess.
Rogues and Vagabonds | George R. Sims
British Dictionary definitions for shiny
/ (ˈʃaɪnɪ) /
glossy or polished; bright
(of clothes or material) worn to a smooth and glossy state, as by continual rubbing
Derived forms of shiny
- shininess, noun
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