Word Meanings - SPARKLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Emitting sparks; glittering; flashing; brilliant; lively; as, sparkling wine; sparkling eyes. -- Spar"kling*ly, adv. -- Spar"kling*ness, n. Syn. -- Brilliant; shining. See Shining.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SPARKLING)
- Bright
- Shining
- brilliant
- burnished
- luminous
- lucid
- sparkling
- limpid
- clever
- happy
- witty
- joyous
- cheerful
- radiant
- Radiant
- Beaming
- lustrous
- glittering
- splendid
- shining
- glorious
- beauteous
Related words: (words related to SPARKLING)
- LUSTROUS
Bright; shining; luminous. " Good sparks and lustrous." Shak. -- Lus"trous*ly, adv. - BEAMFUL
Beamy; radiant. - SHINTIYAN; SHINTYAN
A kind of wide loose drawers or trousers worn by women in Mohammedan countries. - SPLENDIDIOUS
Splendid. - SHINDLE
A shingle; also, a slate for roofing. Holland. - SHINGLER
1. One who shingles. 2. A machine for shingling puddled iron. - BRIGHT
See I - BEAMLESS
1. Not having a beam. 2. Not emitting light. - RADIANT ENGINE
A semiradial engine. See Radial engine, above. - BEAMY
1. Emitting beams of light; radiant; shining. "Beamy gold." Tickell. 2. Resembling a beam in size and weight; massy. His double-biting ax, and beamy spear. Dryden. 3. Having horns, or antlers. Beamy stags in toils engage. Dryden. - BURNISHER
1. One who burnishes. 2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses. - SHINGLE
1. To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof. They shingle their houses with it. Evelyn. 2. To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof. - BEAUTEOUS
Full of beauty; beautiful; very handsome. -- Beau"te*ous*ly, adv. -- - SPARKLING
Emitting sparks; glittering; flashing; brilliant; lively; as, sparkling wine; sparkling eyes. -- Spar"kling*ly, adv. -- Spar"kling*ness, n. Syn. -- Brilliant; shining. See Shining. - WITTY
1. Possessed of wit; knowing; wise; skillful; judicious; clever; cunning. "The deep-revolving witty Buckingham." Shak. 2. Especially, possessing wit or humor; good at repartee; droll; facetious; sometimes, sarcastic; as, a witty remark, poem, - SPLENDIDLY
In a splendid manner; magnificently. - BEAMBIRD
A small European flycatcher , so called because it often nests on a beam in a building. - BEAM
OFries. bam tree, OS. b, D. boom, OHG. boum, poum, G. baum, Icel. ba, Goth. bahms and Gr. a growth, to become, to be. Cf. L. radius staff, rod, spoke of a wheel, beam or ray, and G. strahl arrow, spoke of a 1. Any large piece of timber or iron - SHINNEY
The game of hockey; -- so called because of the liability of the players to receive blows on the shin. Halliwell. - LIMPIDNESS
Quality of being limpid; limpidity. - SPILLET FISHING; SPILLIARD FISHING
A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing. - DILUCIDATION
The act of making clear. Boyle. - PLANISHING
a. & vb. n. from Planish, v. t. Planishing rolls , rolls between which metal strips are passed while cold, to bring them to exactly the required thickness. - MOONSHINER
A person engaged in illicit distilling; -- so called because the work is largely done at night. - OUTSPARKLE
To exceed in sparkling. - BLUSTROUS
Blusterous. Shak. - SHAREBEAM
The part of the plow to which the share is attached. - ELUCIDATORY
Tending to elucidate; elucidative. - BRATTISHING
Carved openwork, as of a shrine, battlement, or parapet. (more info) 1. See Brattice, n.