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Synonyms for gleam
glimgleam
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Wiktionary
gleamverb
Synonyms:
dazzle, trace, sparkle, shine, flare, flash, glow, kindle, glint, lambency, ray, beam, glimmer, flickergleamverb
a small or indistinct shaft or stream of light.
Synonyms:
glow, sparkle, flare, glint, kindle, trace, shine, flash, dazzle, ray, lambency, flicker, glimmer, beamgleamverb
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, dazzlegleamverb
To disgorge filth, as a hawk.
Synonyms:
glint, flare, kindle, sparkle, glow, flash, flicker, shine, glimmer, beam, dazzle, ray, lambency, trace
English Synonyms and Antonyms
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.
Synonyms:
blaze, flame, flare, flash, flicker, glare, gleaming, glimmer, glistening, glistering, glitter, glow, illumination, incandescence, light, luster, scintillation, sheen, shimmer, shine, shining, sparkle, twinkle, twinklingAntonyms:
blackness, dark, darkness, dimness, dusk, gloom, gloominess, obscurity, shade, shadow
Princeton's WordNet
gleam, gleaming, glow, lambencynoun
an appearance of reflected light
Synonyms:
radiance, incandescence, lambency, luminescence, glimmer, gleaming, glow, glowing, freshnessgleam, gleaming, glimmerverb
a flash of light (especially reflected light)
Synonyms:
intimation, lambency, glimmering, glimmer, gleaming, inkling, glowglitter, 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, glowgleam, glimmerverb
shine brightly, like a star or a light
gleamverb
appear briefly
"A terrible thought gleamed in her mind"
Dictionary of English Synonymes
gleamnoun
Synonyms:
ray, beam, glimmer, glimmeringgleamnoun
Synonyms:
lustre, brightness, splendorgleamverb
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#613 | light | |
#1174 | flash | |
#1232 | fall | |
#2480 | ray | |
#3336 | reflect | |
#3880 | smooth | |
#3884 | strike | |
#4440 | glance | |
#4835 | polish | |
#5471 | beam | |
#5503 | trace | |
#6971 | flame | |
#9051 | shine | |
#9651 | glow | |
#12379 | shining | |
#14424 | glitter | |
#15218 | peek | |
#15546 | blaze | |
#16069 | illumination | |
#16632 | flare | |
#17533 | sparkle | |
#18433 | glowing | |
#20263 | glare | |
#22685 | radiance | |
#24571 | sheen | |
#25242 | freshness | |
#26286 | dazzle | |
#29626 | twinkle | |
#29664 | flicker | |
#30718 | luster | |
#33648 | glimmer | |
#34001 | shimmer | |
#35783 | gleaming | |
#45294 | radiate | |
#46663 | glistening | |
#48023 | gleam | |
#51448 | luminescence | |
#54185 | twinkling | |
#56223 | glint | |
#56309 | scintillation | |
#70108 | inkling | |
#71611 | kindle | |
#82628 | intimation | |
#82635 | glimmering | |
#101627 | glisten | |
#146956 | incandescence | |
#257374 | smoothen |
How to use gleam in a sentence?
There are human beings in this world who are soft enough to feel every terrible thing that happens so deeply. And are still brave enough to remain constant and suffer for those who need them the most. Even the stars blink in awe of the gleam of their souls.
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.
She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament.
The mind alike, Vigorous or weak, is capable of culture, But still bears fruit according to its nature. ?Tis not the teacher?s skill that rears the scholar: The sparkling gem gives back the glorious radiance It drinks from other light, but the dull earth Absorbs the blaze, and yields no gleam again.
We may Get everything we Desire, we may Achieve all that we Dream. But if we can't realize God in our life, then our Life is without a Gleam!
Translations for gleam
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- Schein, Funke, Glanz, SchimmerGerman
- αχτίδαGreek
- glimiEsperanto
- säde, pilkahdus, vilkahtaa, vilahtaa, välkehtiä, välkkyä, kiiltää, loisto, välke, hohtaa, pilkahtaaFinnish
- luire, reflet, miroitement, rayonFrench
- նշույլArmenian
- きらきらJapanese
- titiwha, rarama, ramaramaMāori
- glimteNorwegian
- strălucire, urmăRomanian
- луч, блеск, вспышка, свет, проблескRussian
- parlaklık, belirti, parıltıTurkish
- 闪光Chinese
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