shiny
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
shiny
adj 1: reflecting light; "glistening bodies of swimmers"; "the
horse's glossy coat"; "lustrous auburn hair"; "saw the
moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet";
"shining white enamel" [syn: {glistening}, {glossy},
{lustrous}, {sheeny}, {shiny}, {shining}]
2: having a shiny surface or coating; "glazed fabrics"; "glazed
doughnuts" [syn: {glazed}, {shiny}] [ant: {unglazed}]
3: made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a
sheen or glow; "bright silver candlesticks"; "a burnished
brass knocker"; "she brushed her hair until it fell in
lustrous auburn waves"; "rows of shining glasses"; "shiny
black patents" [syn: {bright}, {burnished}, {lustrous},
{shining}, {shiny}]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
114 Moby Thesaurus words for "shiny":
aglow, beaming, beamy, bleached, blushing, bright,
bright and sunny, buffed, burning, burnished, candescent, clean,
cleanly, coruscating, dainty, dazzling, dirt-free, fair,
fastidious, finished, flashing, flashy, flickering, flushing,
fresh, fulgent, furbished, glace, glassy, glazed, gleaming, gleamy,
glinting, glistening, glittering, glossy, glowing, illuminant,
immaculate, incandescent, irradiative, kosher, lacquered, lambent,
lamping, light as day, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant,
luminative, luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lustrous,
nonpolluted, of cleanly habits, orient, polished, pure, radiant,
ritually pure, rubbed, rutilant, rutilous, satiny, scintillating,
sheeny, shellacked, shimmering, shimmery, shined, shining, silken,
silky, sleek, slick, smut-free, smutless, sparkling, spotless,
stainless, starbright, starlike, starry, streaming, suffused,
sunny, sunshiny, sweet, tahar, tubbed, twinkling, unadulterated,
unbesmirched, unblemished, unblotted, undefiled, unmuddied,
unpolluted, unsmirched, unsmudged, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained,
unsullied, untainted, untarnished, varnished, velvety,
well-scrubbed, well-washed, white, whitened
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