gleaming

1. 1.

   bright with a steady but subdued shining

   “from the plane we saw the city below agleam with lights”

   “the gleaming brass on the altar”

   “Nereids beneath the nitid moon”

   Synonymsagleamnitid

   Similarbright

Other forms of gleaming

plural

gleamings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gleaming

What does gleaming mean?

gleaming means "a flash of light (especially reflected light)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gleaming?

gleaming has 2 syllables: glea-ming. The stress falls on "glea". In IPA it is /ˈɡlimɪŋ/.

What is another word for gleaming?

Close synonyms include gleam, glimmer, gleam, glow, lambency. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gleaming a common word?

gleaming is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.