glister

Questions about glister

What does glister mean?

glister means "the quality of shining with a bright reflected light".

How many syllables are in glister?

glister has 2 syllables and divides as gli-ster under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for glister?

Close synonyms include glitter, glisten, scintillation, sparkle. 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 glister a common word?

glister is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.