Synonyms for GLIMMER
ˈglɪm ərglim·mer

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. glimmernoun

   To shine with a faint light.

   The fireflies glimmered in the dark.

   Synonyms:
   shimmer, flicker

2. glimmernoun

   A flash of light.

   Synonyms:
   sparkle

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. glimmer

   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.

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

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

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.5 / 4 votes

1. gleam, gleaming, glimmernoun

   a flash of light (especially reflected light)

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

2. inkling, intimation, glimmering, glimmerverb

   a slight suggestion or vague understanding

   "he had no inkling what was about to happen"

   Synonyms:
   intimation, glimmering, breath, glimmer, gleaming, gleam, inkling, hint

3. gleam, glimmerverb

   shine brightly, like a star or a light

   Synonyms:
   gleam, glint, shine, glitter, glimmer, glisten

Matched Categories

1. • Flash
   • Radiate

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. glimmerverb

   Synonyms:
   shine (faintly), gleam, glitter

2. glimmernoun

   Synonyms:
   gleam (of faint, unsteady light), ray, beam

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:3.0 / 2 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "glimmer":

   gleam, glow, ray, beacon, glimpse, spark, flicker, modicum, light, flash, blink, iight

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How to use GLIMMER in a sentence?

1. Iain Hall:

   We need to be smart, after 30 long years, when all we have in the world is displacement, here we have a glimmer of hope. Here we have a chance of success. That is a good sell.

2. Anthony Fauci:

   We wanted to get to 20 million, but some glimmer of hope is that in the last 72 hours, they’ve gotten 1.2 million doses into peoples’ arms, which is an average of about 500,000 a day, we are not where we want to be. There’s no doubt about that. But I think we can get there.

3. John Kilduff:

   The U.S.-China trade war has caused energy demand growth to take a big hit. Any glimmer of hope revives the prospects for a more positive demand landscape.

4. Gary Schuler:

   A classic emerald cut like this one allows for a wide expanse of pure material to be viewed without the distraction of a more complex facet arrangement, it's almost like looking at the glimmer of a reflecting pool.

5. Courtney White:

   When we got the first call that people were being arrested we cried it was like that first glimmer of hope in seven months, it was bittersweet, we cried … I mean it was just so wonderful to hear that something was being done.