shimmery

1. 1.

   glistening tremulously

   “the shimmery surface of the lake”

   “a dress of shimmery satin”

   Similarbright

Questions about shimmery

What does shimmery mean?

shimmery means "glistening tremulously".

How many syllables are in shimmery?

shimmery has 3 syllables and divides as shim-me-ry 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.

Is shimmery a common word?

shimmery 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.