All gleam synonyms
gleam
G g verb gleam
- shine β to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
- glisten β to reflect a sparkling light or a faint intermittent glow; shine lustrously.
- twinkle β to shine with a flickering gleam of light, as a star or distant light.
- glint β a tiny, quick flash of light.
- shimmer β to shine with or reflect a subdued, tremulous light; gleam faintly.
- glimmer β a faint or unsteady light; gleam.
- radiate β to extend, spread, or move like rays or radii from a center.
- glitter β to reflect light with a brilliant, sparkling luster; sparkle with reflected light.
- glow β a light emitted by or as if by a substance heated to luminosity; incandescence.
- flash β a precedence code for handling messages about initial enemy contact or operational combat messages of extreme urgency within the U.S. military.
- flare β to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
- burn β If there is a fire or a flame somewhere, you say that there is a fire or flame burning there.
- beam β If you say that someone is beaming, you mean that they have a big smile on their face because they are happy, pleased, or proud about something.
- coruscate β to emit flashes of light; sparkle
- scintillate β to emit sparks.
- glister β to glisten; glitter.
- glance β to look quickly or briefly.
noun gleam
- ray β John, 1627?β1705, English naturalist.
- blaze β When a fire blazes, it burns strongly and brightly.
- glare β a bright, smooth surface, as of ice.
- brightness β the condition of being bright
- sparkle β to issue in or as if in little sparks, as fire or light: The candlelight sparkled in the crystal.
- flicker β to burn unsteadily; shine with a wavering light: The candle flickered in the wind and went out.
- sheen β Fulton (John) 1895β1979, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman, writer, and teacher.
- brilliance β great brightness; radiance
- coruscation β a gleam or flash of light
- glitz β ostentatious glitter or sophistication: a cocktail lounge noted for its glitz.
- gloss β an explanation or translation, by means of a marginal or interlinear note, of a technical or unusual expression in a manuscript text.
- luster β a person who lusts: a luster after power.
- lustre β lustrum (def 1).
- scintillation β the act of scintillating; sparkling.
- splendor β brilliant or gorgeous appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificence: the splendor of the palace.
- splendour β brilliant or gorgeous appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificence: the splendor of the palace.
- glim β a light or lamp.