glitter

1. 1.

   be shiny, as if wet

   “His eyes were glistening”

   Synonymsglistenglintgleamshine

   Broaderlook

   Narrowerspangleshimmer

Other forms of glitter

plural

glitters·

past tense

glitterred·

present participle

glitterring·

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 glitter

What does glitter mean?

glitter means "the quality of shining with a bright reflected light". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in glitter?

glitter has 2 syllables: glit-ter. The stress falls on "glit". In IPA it is /ˈɡlɪtɚ/.

What is another word for glitter?

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

glitter 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.

What rhymes with glitter?

1 word rhymes with glitter. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.