Thesaurus:shining

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
• candescent
• coruscant
• dazzling
• incandescent
• iridescent
• limpid
• nitid
• rutilant (literary)
• shimmering
• shimmery

Various

• fervent
• phosphorescent

Antonyms

• dark    [⇒ thesaurus]

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.