![]() "he had a sparkle in his eye" "there's a perpetual twinkle in his eyes" Merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance Princeton's WordNet Rate these synonyms: 0.0 / 0 votes The light of incandescence is intense and white like that from metal at a white heat.īlaze, flame, flare, flash, flicker, glare, gleam, gleaming, glimmer, glistening, glistering, glitter, glow, illumination, incandescence, light, luster, scintillation, sheen, shimmer, shine, shining, twinkle, twinklingīlackness, dark, darkness, dimness, dusk, gloom, gloominess, obscurity, shade, shadow Illumination is a wide-spread, brilliant light, as when all the windows of a house or of a street are lighted. Glistening is a shining as from a wet surface. Twinkle and twinkling are used of the intermittent light of the fixed stars. A sparkle is a sudden light, as of sparks thrown out scintillation is the more exact and scientific term for the actual emission of sparks, also the figurative term for what suggests such emission as, scintillations of wit or of genius. A gleam is not wavering, but transient or intermittent a sudden gleam of light came through the half-open door a glitter is a hard light as, the glitter of burnished arms. We speak of the glimmer of distant lamps through the mist of the shimmer of waves in sun light or moon light. Glimmer, glitter, and shimmer denote wavering light. Shine and shining refer to a steady or continuous emission of light sheen is a faint shining, usually by reflection. The glare and glow are steady, the glare painfully bright, the glow subdued as, the glare of torches the glow of dying embers. A flare is a wavering flame or blaze a flash is a light that appears and disappears in an instant as, a flash of lightning the flash of gunpowder. A blaze is an extensive, brilliant flame. A flame is both hot and luminous if it contains few solid particles it will yield little light, tho it may afford intense heat, as in the case of a hydrogen- flame. Light, strictly denoting a form of radiant energy, is used as a general term for any luminous effect discernible by the eye, from the faintest phosphorescence to the blaze of the noonday sun.
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