Definitions for glimmer

glimmer glim·mer

Spelling: [glim-er]
IPA: /ˈglɪm ər/

Glimmer is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 108 anagrams from letters in glimmer (egilmmr).

Definitions for glimmer

noun

  1. a faint or unsteady light; gleam.
  2. a dim perception; inkling.

verb (used without object)

  1. to shine faintly or unsteadily; twinkle, shimmer, or flicker.
  2. to appear faintly or dimly.

Origin of glimmer

1300-50; Middle English glimeren to gleam; cognate with German glimmern; compare Old English gleomu splendor

Examples for glimmer

But there he stopped, for he began to have a glimmer of where she was leading him.

Then he looked up at her with a glimmer of anxiety in his eyes.

In the Kurdish area, tourism offers a glimmer of hope in a region crippled by decades of violence.

We always want to focus on what we can do to help, to find that glimmer of optimism.

There was a glimmer of hope when, last April, Congress decided it was time to regulate themselves.

There was no light in the kitchen, and only a glimmer in the chamber above.

As he had anticipated, the hunt had begun at the first glimmer of light.

“There is a glimmer of possibility” that humanity could still turn this trajectory around, Lenton told me.

He looked from the window, and saw in the east the first glimmer of a lovely spring-day.

What comes next is a bit mind bending—a glimmer of autobiography disguised as fictional prognostication.

Word Value for glimmer
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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