Thesaurus:shining
English
Adjective
Sense: emitting light
Synonyms
- aglow
- alight
- beamful
- beamsome
- beamy
- brilliant
- effulgent (literary)
- glowing
- illuminating
- lambent
- lighted
- lit
- lucent
- luciferous
- lucific
- luminant
- luminiferous
- luminous
- lustrous
- orient (obsolete except poetic)
- profulgent (obsolete)
- radiant
- refulgent
- resplendent
- sheeny
- shining
- shiny [⇒ thesaurus]
Hyponyms
- ablaze
- aglimmer
- alight
- ashimmer
- bright [⇒ thesaurus]
- candescent
- coruscant
- dazzling
- incandescent
- iridescent
- limpid
- nitid
- rutilant (literary)
- shimmering
- shimmery
Various
Antonyms
See also
- Thesaurus:shiny (reflecting light)
Further reading
- “420. light” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “shining” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.