Definitions for glimmering

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glimmering glim·mer·ing

Spelling: [glim-er-ing]

IPA: /ˈglɪm ər ɪŋ/

Glimmering is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 211 anagrams from letters in glimmering (eggiilmmnr).

Definitions for glimmering

noun

1. a faint or unsteady light; glimmer.
2. a faint glimpse or idea; inkling.
3. a faint or unsteady light; gleam.
4. a dim perception; inkling.

adjective

1. shining faintly or unsteadily; shimmering.

verb (used without object)

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

Origin of glimmering

Middle English word dating back to 1300-50; See origin at glimmer, -ing¹, -ing²

Examples for glimmering

Sir Gervaise's manner had now lost every glimmering of excitement.

A glimmering of the truth came to Dunk, and his eyes narrowed.

Side by side they had sat, watching that glimmering scene about them.

As I drove home that night around eight, Long Island Sound was pitch-black, apart from the glimmering reflection of light poles.

Zora knows this glimmering light is not love, but renunciation.

I was very young and I thought that the whole experience was a wonderful adventure and a glimmering portal to the future.

The glimmering of an explanation of this did not come until a long time afterward.

I pursued it, until at last I saw a glimmering light like a star.

A light, soft and glimmering as morning twilight, floated round me.

And the lamps shone round them, and above them was the glimmering moon.