gleaming

[ glee-ming ]

adjective

1. giving off or appearing to give off light or brightness; radiant; shining:

   A cold, gray light filtered down through the bushes and lay on the faintly gleaming sand.

   The newest release is a gleaming composite of epic, unabashedly pretty '70s songwriting and fancy-pants disco hedonism.

Other Words From

• gleam·ing·ly adverb
• un·gleam·ing adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of gleaming¹

gleam ( def ) + -ing ²( def )

Example Sentences

Nothing does it quite like deftly decapitating a bottle of bubbly with a gleaming blade.

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But then, like a scene in a horror movie, she will wake as though someone were coming at her with a gleaming knife.

From The Daily Beast

I jammed my thumb into my mouth and almost choked on it while the screen lit up with sunny skies on a gleaming lake.

From The Daily Beast

She found out on her first day on the job in 1941, when confronted with two bodies laid out on gleaming white porcelain tables.

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Caroline and John Jr. took great interest in the gleaming dirk.

From The Daily Beast

“You must leave this house this moment,” she cried, with a stamp, with gleaming eyes and very pale.

From Project Gutenberg

Kerry glared after the retreating figures for a moment, and a grin of fierce satisfaction revealed his gleaming teeth.

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Dorothy descended from her lofty perch on the stool, and met the red gleaming eyes of Pincher intently watching all her movements.

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She fancied she could almost see the wings of angels gleaming in the purple sunlight.

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Upon the intruder he turned a crimson, furious face, perspiration gleaming like varnish on brow and nose.

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Related Words

• bright
• burnished
• glassy
• glazed
• glistening
• lustrous
• polished
• shining
• shiny
• sleek