Shiny \Shin"y\, a. [Compar. Shinier; superl. Shiniest.]
Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.
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Like distant thunder on a shiny day. --Dryden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
shiny
adj 1: reflecting light; "glistening bodies of swimmers"; "the
horse's glossy coat"; "lustrous auburn hair"; "saw the
moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet";
"shining white enamel" [syn: glistening, glossy, lustrous,
sheeny, shining]
2: having a shiny surface or coating; "glazed fabrics"; "glazed
doughnuts" [syn: glazed] [ant: unglazed]
3: made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a
sheen or glow; "bright silver candlesticks"; "a burnished
brass knocker"; "she brushed her hair until it fell in
lustrous auburn waves"; "rows of shining glasses"; "shiny
black patents" [syn: bright, burnished, lustrous, shining]
4: abounding with sunlight; "a bright sunny day"; "one shining
norming"- John Muir; "when it is warm and shiny" [syn: bright,
shining, sunshiny, sunny]
[also: shiniest, shinier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
114 Moby Thesaurus words for "shiny":
aglow, beaming, beamy, bleached, blushing, bright,
bright and sunny, buffed, burning, burnished, candescent, clean,
cleanly, coruscating, dainty, dazzling, dirt-free, fair,
fastidious, finished, flashing, flashy, flickering, flushing,
fresh, fulgent, furbished, glace, glassy, glazed, gleaming, gleamy,
glinting, glistening, glittering, glossy, glowing, illuminant,
immaculate, incandescent, irradiative, kosher, lacquered, lambent,
lamping, light as day, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant,
luminative, luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lustrous,
nonpolluted, of cleanly habits, orient, polished, pure, radiant,
ritually pure, rubbed, rutilant, rutilous, satiny, scintillating,
sheeny, shellacked, shimmering, shimmery, shined, shining, silken,
silky, sleek, slick, smut-free, smutless, sparkling, spotless,
stainless, starbright, starlike, starry, streaming, suffused,
sunny, sunshiny, sweet, tahar, tubbed, twinkling, unadulterated,
unbesmirched, unblemished, unblotted, undefiled, unmuddied,
unpolluted, unsmirched, unsmudged, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained,
unsullied, untainted, untarnished, varnished, velvety,
well-scrubbed, well-washed, white, whitened
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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