shiny

American  

[shahy-nee] / ˈʃaɪ ni /

adjective

shinier, shiniest

1. bright or glossy in appearance.

   Synonyms:

   gleaming, shining, brilliant

2. filled with light, as by sunshine.

   Synonyms:

   gleaming, shining, brilliant

3. rubbed or worn to a glossy smoothness, as clothes.

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shiny British  

/ ˈʃaɪnɪ /

adjective

1. glossy or polished; bright

2. (of clothes or material) worn to a smooth and glossy state, as by continual rubbing

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Other Word Forms

• shinily adverb
• shininess noun
• unshiny adjective

Etymology

Origin of shiny

First recorded in 1580–90; shine ¹ + -y ¹

Example Sentences

The first, which he began making in the early 1960s, were mysterious, sinisterly bejeweled boxes, little containers of compressed surrealism festooned with hundreds of shiny straight pins.

From The Wall Street Journal

Bellowing "Silence, everyone!" to terrified parliamentarians, the man with a bushy moustache and shiny tricorn quickly caught the public's attention in an image engraved on the nation's collective memory.

From Barron's

Not one shiny piece of metal could be seen.

From Literature

“Pixies hate to be dirty. They like to stay shiny.”

From Literature

Weed said that management “showed off the potential tailwinds from the shiny new acquisitions.”

From MarketWatch

Related Words

• gleaming
• glossy
• lustrous
• polished
• slick
• sparkling