Synonyms of beamed

beamed

verb

past tense of beam

1

as in shone

to emit rays of light

a lighthouse has beamed from this site since the 1790s

Synonyms & Similar Words

• shone
• glowed
• flashed
• radiated
• gleamed
• rayed
• flickered
• flared
• shimmered
• burned
• glittered
• glimmered
• glinted
• sparkled
• glistened
• blazed
• twinkled
• illumined
• glared
• fired
• brightened
• lit
• illuminated
• blinked
• winked
• lightened
• flamed
• beat (down)
• sheened
• dazzled
• winkled
• luminesced
• irradiated
• blinded
• scintillated
• glistered
• spangled
• dazed
• lustered
• coruscated
• bedazzled

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• lowered
• darkened
• blackened

2

as in grinned

to express an emotion (as amusement) by curving the lips upward

my father beamed when I showed him my new car

Synonyms & Similar Words

• grinned
• smiled
• laughed
• smirked
• sneered
• simpered

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• grimaced
• frowned
• glared
• scowled
• lowered
• glowered
• pouted
• sulked
• gloomed

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of beamed

The girls beamed dancing with the smiling Johnson, who honored his co-star Catherine Laga'aia (the live-action Moana) in the dance. — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 8 July 2026

About 45 minutes before another World Cup match in Houston, a message from astronauts aboard the International Space Station noting the holiday was beamed into the stadium. — Steven Sloan, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026

The Kardashians star could be seen hugging True as the former basketball player—who wore a plunging black metallic shirt, black slacks, a shiny chain necklace, and black sunglasses—beamed at the camera, holding Tatum in his arms. — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 1 July 2026

Meanwhile, Alabama’s hunnakay runs with that vampiric vibe by dropping in punchlines that sound beamed in from the afterlife. — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 26 June 2026

Presidents Eisenhower and Johnson slept here, as did Shirley Temple and Louis Armstrong, and in 2017 the bat signal was beamed onto its facade to mark the death of Walla Walla’s own Adam West, television's Batman. — Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026

And now, engineers have harnessed laser light to dramatically increase the amount of data that can be beamed down from space, a technology all the more urgent due to the advent of orbital data centers. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 22 June 2026

More than 30 years later, Mattox still beamed with pride when recalling his first harness racing win, around 1992. — Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026

The crew had been trained at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston to observe and photograph the moon and Earth, and the O2O system ensured that their best images could be beamed back to Earth and spread across news sites and social media within hours of taking them. — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 June 2026