Antonyms for gleam
glimgleam

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1. gleamverb

   Synonyms:
   dazzle, trace, sparkle, shine, flare, flash, glow, kindle, glint, lambency, ray, beam, glimmer, flicker

2. gleamverb

   a small or indistinct shaft or stream of light.

   Synonyms:
   glow, sparkle, flare, glint, kindle, trace, shine, flash, dazzle, ray, lambency, flicker, glimmer, beam

3. gleamverb

   To be briefly but strongly apparent.

   The rescue workers preserved a gleam of optimism that they might still survive.

   Synonyms:
   glow, beam, shine, kindle, glint, sparkle, flare, flash, flicker, lambency, ray, trace, glimmer, dazzle

4. gleamverb

   To disgorge filth, as a hawk.

   Synonyms:
   glint, flare, kindle, sparkle, glow, flash, flicker, shine, glimmer, beam, dazzle, ray, lambency, trace

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1. gleam

   Light, strictly denoting a form of radiant energy, is used as a general term for any luminous effect discernible by the eye, from the faintest phosphorescence to the blaze of the noonday sun. A flame is both hot and luminous; if it contains few solid particles it will yield little light, tho it may afford intense heat, as in the case of a hydrogen-flame. A blaze is an extensive, brilliant flame. A flare is a wavering flame or blaze; a flash is a light that appears and disappears in an instant; as, a flash of lightning; the flash of gunpowder. The glare and glow are steady, the glare painfully bright, the glow subdued; as, the glare of torches; the glow of dying embers. Shine and shining refer to a steady or continuous emission of light; sheen is a faint shining, usually by reflection. Glimmer, glitter, and shimmer denote wavering light. We speak of the glimmer of distant lamps through the mist; of the shimmer of waves in sunlight or moonlight. A gleam is not wavering, but transient or intermittent; a sudden gleam of light came through the half-open door; a glitter is a hard light; as, the glitter of burnished arms. A sparkle is a sudden light, as of sparks thrown out; scintillation is the more exact and scientific term for the actual emission of sparks, also the figurative term for what suggests such emission; as, scintillations of wit or of genius. Twinkle and twinkling are used of the intermittent light of the fixed stars. Glistening is a shining as from a wet surface. Illumination is a wide-spread, brilliant light, as when all the windows of a house or of a street are lighted. The light of incandescence is intense and white like that from metal at a white heat.

   Antonyms:
   blackness, dark, darkness, dimness, dusk, gloom, gloominess, obscurity, shade, shadow

   Synonyms:
   blaze, flame, flare, flash, flicker, glare, gleaming, glimmer, glistening, glistering, glitter, glow, illumination, incandescence, light, luster, scintillation, sheen, shimmer, shine, shining, sparkle, twinkle, twinkling

Matched Categories

1. • Appear
   • Radiate
   • Shine

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1. gleam, gleaming, glow, lambencynoun

   an appearance of reflected light

   Synonyms:
   radiance, incandescence, lambency, luminescence, glimmer, gleaming, glow, glowing, freshness

2. gleam, gleaming, glimmerverb

   a flash of light (especially reflected light)

   Synonyms:
   intimation, lambency, glimmering, glimmer, gleaming, inkling, glow

3. glitter, glisten, glint, gleam, shineverb

   be shiny, as if wet

   "His eyes were glistening"

   Synonyms:
   smooth, shine, beam, glimmer, peek, radiate, polish, reflect, glance, smoothen, glitter, strike, glint, fall, glisten, glow

4. gleam, glimmerverb

   shine brightly, like a star or a light

   Synonyms:
   glint, shine, glitter, glimmer, glisten

5. gleamverb

   appear briefly

   "A terrible thought gleamed in her mind"

   Synonyms:
   glint, shine, glitter, glimmer, glisten

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1. gleamnoun

   Synonyms:
   beam, ray, glimmer, glance, flash, splendor, sparkle, gleaming

2. gleamverb

   Synonyms:
   glimmer, glitter, radiate, beam, scintillate, sparkle

How to use gleam in a sentence?

1. Hannah More:

   Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

2. William Wordsworth:

   She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament.

3. Agnes Repplier:

   A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.

4. Hannah More:

   Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

5. Thomas Carlyle:

   One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.

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