Definitions for glimmers

glimmers glim·mer

Spelling: [glim-er]
IPA: /ˈglɪm ər/

Glimmers is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 222 anagrams from letters in glimmers (egilmmrs).

Definitions for glimmers

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 glimmers

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

Examples for glimmers

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for glimmers
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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