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  • 41bright — I. a. 1. Luminous, shining, resplendent, glowing, lustrous, beaming, gleaming, glittering, glistening, glistering, twinkling, beaming, shimmering, sparkling, scintillating, scintillant, coruscating, flashing, flaming, blazing, dazzling, irradiant …

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  • 42iridescent — adjective an iridescent film of oil on the puddle Syn: opalescent, nacreous; shimmering, luminous, glittering, sparkling, dazzling, shining, gleaming, glowing, lustrous, scintillating; kaleidoscopic, rainbow colored, multicolored; literary… …

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  • 43scintillating — adjective 1) a scintillating diamond necklace Syn: sparkling, shining, bright, brilliant, gleaming, glittering, twinkling, shimmering, glistening; literary glistering Ant: dull 2) a scintillating performance …

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  • 44shining — adjective 1) a shining expanse of water Syn: gleaming, bright, brilliant, illuminated, lustrous, glowing, glinting, sparkling, twinkling, glittering, glistening, shimmering, dazzling, luminous, luminescent, incandescent; literary glistering …

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  • 45alight — I v 1. get off, disembark, debark, deplane, detrain, debus; pile off, pile out. 2. land, touch down, settle down, light upon, pitch upon, descend upon, drop down on, come to rest upon; perch, lodge, settle, settle on, descend and settle. 3.… …

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  • 46brilliant — adj 1. shining, bright, sunny, sunshiny; illuminated, alight, light, lit, lighted; white, golden, rutilant, aureate; radiant, irradiant, lambent, resplendent, beaming, beamy; dazzling, vivid, intense, ablaze, aflame, afire; fulgent, effulgent,… …

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  • 47flash — n 1. streak, patch, glint, lightning; shaft, ray, beam; gleam, glare, fulguration, coruscation; brightness, dazzle, dazzling, bedazzlement, bedazzling, blinding; blaze, flame, flare, spark, scintilla, scintillation; shimmer, flicker, twinkle,… …

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  • 48flicker — v 1. twinkle, sparkle, glimmer, blink, shimmer; glint, glitter, glisten, Archaic. glister, burn unsteadily; spark, scintillate, flame, flare or flare up; flash, fulgurate, gleam, streak, glare, coruscate; glow, shine, luminesce, incandesce,… …

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  • 49glare — n 1. brilliance, brightness, dazzling, splendor, resplendence; shine, luster, illumination, luminosity, effulgence, radiance; blinding flash, harsh or strong light, intensity, vividness; blaze, flare, flame, fulguration, coruscation,… …

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  • 50glaring — adj 1. dazzling, brilliant, very bright, resplendent; shining, lustrous, illuminating, radiating; bedazzling, dazing, blinding, overpowering, intense, strong, harsh, vivid; blazing, flaring, flaming, flash 460 ing, fulgurating, coruscating;… …

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