Word Meanings - SHIMMER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer. The shimmering glimpses of a stream. Tennyson. (more info) glitter, D. schemeren, G. schimmern, Dan. skimre, Sw. skimra, AS. scima a

Additional info about word: SHIMMER

To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer. The shimmering glimpses of a stream. Tennyson. (more info) glitter, D. schemeren, G. schimmern, Dan. skimre, Sw. skimra, AS. scima a light, brightness, Icel. skima, Goth. skeima a torch, a

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SHIMMER)

• Flicker
• Flutter
• quiver
• bicker
• falter
• waver
• glimmer
• shimmer
• scintillate

Related words: (words related to SHIMMER)

• FALTER
  To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
• WAVERER
  One who wavers; one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith, opinion, or the like. Shak.
• GLIMMERING
  1. Faint, unsteady light; a glimmer. South. 2. A faint view or idea; a glimpse; an inkling.
• FLUTTER
  1. To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings. 2. To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.
• FLICKERMOUSE
  See FLITTERMOUSE
• WAVERINGLY
  In a wavering manner.
• WAVERINGNESS
  The quality or state of wavering.
• FLICKER
  1. To flutter; to flap the wings without flying. And flickering on her nest made short essays to sing. Dryden. 2. To waver unsteadily, like a flame in a current of air, or when about to expire; as, the flickering light. The shadows flicker to fro.
• QUIVERED
  1. Furnished with, or carrying, a quiver. "Like a quivered nymph with arrows keen." Milton. 2. Sheathed, as in a quiver. "Whose quills stand quivered at his ear." Pope.
• SCINTILLATE
  1. To emit sparks, or fine igneous particles. As the electrical globe only scintillates when rubbed against its cushion. Sir W. Scott. 2. To sparkle, as the fixed stars.
• GLIMMER
  To give feeble or scattered rays of light; to shine faintly; to show a faint, unsteady light; as, the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp. The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day. Shak. Syn. -- To gleam; to glitter. See Gleam, Flash. (more
• FALTERING
  Hesitating; trembling. "With faltering speech." Milton. -- n.
• QUIVER
  Nimble; active. " A little quiver fellow." Shak.
• SHIMMER
  To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer. The shimmering glimpses of a stream. Tennyson. (more info) glitter, D. schemeren, G. schimmern, Dan. skimre, Sw. skimra, AS. scima a
• FLUTTERER
  One who, or that which, flutters.
• BICKERMENT
  Contention. Spenser.
• QUIVERINGLY
  With quivering motion.
• BICKERER
  One who bickers.
• BICKER
  A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.
• FLUTTERINGLY
  In a fluttering manner.
• AFLICKER
  In a flickering state.
• OVERFLUTTER
  To flutter over.
• AGLIMMER
  In a glimmering state. Hawthorne.