SHINING Synonyms

• softly bright or radiant

• cheerful and bright

• pleased and proud

• radiating or as if radiating light

• emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts

• not made dim or less bright

• with brightness

• having strong or striking color

• characterized by quickness and ease in learning

• having lots of light either natural or artificial

• made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow

• splendid

• clear and sharp and ringing

• characterized by happiness or gladness

• likely to turn out well in the future

• amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning

• shining intensely

• a flash of light (especially reflected light)

• an appearance of reflected light

• bright with a steady but subdued shining

• reflecting light

• emitting light as a result of being heated

• characterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance

• made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow

• brilliant

• reflecting light

• emitting light without appreciable heat as by slow oxidation of phosphorous

• radiating or as if radiating light

• having great beauty and splendor

• used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide

• a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash

• shining with brilliant points of light like stars

• a weak and tremulous light

• shine with a weak or fitful light

• give off a shimmering reflection, as of silk

• a signal transmitted along a narrow path; guides airplane pilots in darkness or bad weather

• long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction

• a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation

• a column of light (as from a beacon)

• (nautical) breadth amidships

• the broad side of a ship

• a gymnastic apparatus used by women gymnasts

• smile radiantly; express joy through one's facial expression

• emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light

• express with a beaming face or smile

• broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television

• have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink

• experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion

• an alert and refreshed state

• light from nonthermal sources

• the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised

• a feeling of considerable warmth

• a steady even light without flames

• the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface

• an appearance of reflected light

• emit a steady even light without flames

• have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink

• shine intensely, as if with heat

• be exuberant or high-spirited

• experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion

• arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center

• having rays or ray-like parts as in the flower heads of daisies

• send out rays or waves

• send out real or metaphoric rays; the children radiated joyous energy

• extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center

• have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink

• cause to be seen by emitting light as if in rays

• experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion

• issue or emerge in rays or waves

• spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate

• an appearance of reflected light

• a flash of light (especially reflected light)

• be shiny, as if wet

• shine brightly, like a star or a light

• to shine with faint or brief light

• a momentary flash of light

• a spatially localized brightness

• be shiny, as if wet

• throw a glance at; take a brief look at

• the quality of shining with a bright reflected light

• be shiny, as if wet