gleamy

[ glee-mee ]

adjective

, gleam·i·er, gleam·i·est.

1. gleaming.

Word History and Origins

Origin of gleamy¹

First recorded in 1585–95; gleam + -y ¹

Example Sentences

The kitchen around her, which was as big as Hazel’s living room, looked like the sort of kitchen you see on TV, all matching and gleamy.

From Literature

“Brokeback Mountain,” the standout story in Proulx’s “gritty, gleamy” collection “Close Range,” is about the “sudden flare-up of sexual passion between two ranch hands herding 1,000 sheep in summer upland pasture,” Richard Eder wrote in his review.

From New York Times

While all the forest, witched with slumberous moonshine, Holds up its leaves in happy, happy silence, Waiting the dew, with breath and pulse suspended,— I hear afar thy whispering, gleamy islands, And track thee wakeful still amid the wide-hung silence.

From Project Gutenberg

The fresh wind, the gleamy wisps of light, the running, open sea beyond the harbour bars.

From Project Gutenberg

There are wisps of gleamy light—out there.

From Project Gutenberg