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say it: SPAHR-klee
sparkly is an adjective meaning "marked by high spirits or excitement". It is pronounced /ˈspɑɹkli/ — SPAHR-klee. It carries 2 recorded senses.
marked by high spirits or excitement
“his fertile effervescent mind”
“scintillating personality”
“a row of sparkly cheerleaders”
having brief brilliant points or flashes of light
“bugle beads all aglitter”
“glinting eyes”
“glinting water”
“his glittering eyes were cold and malevolent”
“shop window full of glittering Christmas trees”
“glittery costume jewelry”
“scintillant mica”
“the scintillating stars”
“a dress with sparkly sequins”
“`glistering' is an archaic term”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sparkly come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.