shiny

3 definitions found

shiny - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Shiny \Shin"y\, a. [Compar. Shinier; superl. Shiniest.]
     Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.
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           Like distant thunder on a shiny day.     --Dryden.
     [1913 Webster]

shiny - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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, shiny, shining]
      2: having a shiny surface or coating; "glazed fabrics"; "glazed
         doughnuts" [syn: glazed, shiny] [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, shiny]

shiny - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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