SPARKLING Synonyms

• cheerful and bright

• pleased and proud

• radiating or as if radiating light

• amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning

• shining intensely

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

• (of a liquid) giving off bubbles

• marked by high spirits or excitement

• a flash of light (especially reflected light)

• an appearance of reflected light

• bright with a steady but subdued shining

• a slight suggestion or vague understanding

• reflecting light

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

• brilliant

• reflecting light

• radiating or as if radiating light

• brilliantly clever

• marked by high spirits or excitement

• having brief brilliant points or flashes of light

• the work of making something smooth and shiny by rubbing or waxing it

• marked by exceptional merit

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

• reflecting light

• to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light

• reflect brightly

• be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity

• a weak and tremulous light

• shine with a weak or fitful light

• give off a shimmering reflection, as of silk

• reflect brightly

• be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity

• the quality of shining with a bright reflected light

• the occurrence of a small flash or spark

• be shiny, as if wet

• give off

• reflect brightly

• emit or reflect light in a flickering manner

• fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon

• be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity

• the quality of shining with a bright reflected light

• be shiny, as if wet

• a momentary flash of light

• Scottish writer of satirical novels (born in 1918)

• merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance

• electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field

• a small but noticeable trace of some quality that might become stronger

• a small fragment of a burning substance thrown out by burning material or by friction

• put in motion or move to act

• emit or produce sparks

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

• merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance

• gleam or glow intermittently

• emit or reflect light in a flickering manner