glimmer

1. 1.

   shine brightly, like a star or a light

   Synonymsgleam

   Broaderradiate

Other forms of glimmer

plural

glimmers·

past tense

glimmerred·

present participle

glimmerring·

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 glimmer

What does glimmer mean?

glimmer 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 glimmer?

glimmer has 2 syllables: glim-mer. The stress falls on "glim". In IPA it is /ˈɡlɪmɚ/.

What is another word for glimmer?

Close synonyms include gleam, gleaming, inkling, intimation, glimmering. 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 glimmer a common word?

glimmer 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.