Definitions for shiny

shiny shin·y

Spelling: [shahy-nee]
IPA: /ˈʃaɪ ni/

Shiny is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in shiny (hinsy).

Definitions for shiny

adjective

  1. bright or glossy in appearance.
  2. filled with light, as by sunshine.
  3. rubbed or worn to a glossy smoothness, as clothes.

Origin of shiny

First recorded in 1580-90; shine1 + -y1

Examples for shiny

But beneath all the shiny esteem, the 25-year-old Wright led a seedy double life.

The sweat oozed from his shiny forehead as he backed cautiously away.

Poking out of the shiny gold pages is a “distinctive silk marker”—also gold—which “complements the color of the leather.”

The shiny floors had scarcely been walked upon, since they had been refinished.

Worn smooth and shiny now, it is still my most precious possession.

NYC Prep worked by shoving real-life rich kids into the shiny shells of reality television stars.

Those eyes were the shiny, vacuous, soulless eyes of a madman!

On the way, we found ourselves wedged in traffic between a couple of Mercedes Benzes and a shiny new Jaguar.

On the GOP side, everybody wanted their own shiny Super PAC.

Later there was rock, sometimes granite-like, sometimes black and shiny.

Word Value for shiny
Scrable

11

Words with friends

10

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