GLISTEN
Dictionary entry overview: What does glisten mean?
• GLISTEN (noun)
The noun GLISTEN has 1 sense:
1. the quality of shining with a bright reflected light
Familiarity information: GLISTEN used as a noun is very rare.
• GLISTEN (verb)
The verb GLISTEN has 1 sense:
1. be shiny, as if wet
Familiarity information: GLISTEN used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GLISTEN (noun)
Meaning:
The quality of shining with a bright reflected light
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
glisten; glister; glitter; sparkle; scintillation
Hypernyms ("glisten" is a kind of...):
brightness (the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white)
• GLISTEN (verb)
Meaning:
Be shiny, as if wet
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
glitter; glisten; glint; gleam; shine
Context example:
His eyes were glistening
Hypernyms (to "glisten" is one way to...):
appear; look; seem (give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "glisten"):
spangle (glitter as if covered with spangles)
shimmer (give off a shimmering reflection, as of silk)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sentence examples:
Lights glisten on the horizon
The horizon is glistening with lights
