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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Shiny \Shin"y\, a. [Compar. {Shinier}; superl. {Shiniest}.]
   Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.
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         Like distant thunder on a shiny day.     --Dryden.
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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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