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glimmer

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Synonyms and Antonyms of glimmer

1 a very small amount

a glimmer of hope that there will be snow on Christmas

Synonyms of glimmer

ace, bit, crumb, dab, dram, driblet, hint, lick, little, mite, nip, ounce, particle, peanuts, ray, scintilla, scruple, shade, shadow, shred, skosh, smack, smell, smidgen (also smidgeon), snap, soupçon, spark, spatter, speck, splash, spot, sprinkling, strain, streak, suspicion, tad, touch, trace

Words Related to glimmer

hoot, iota, jot, minim, minimum, modicum, semblance, syllable, tittle, vestige, whit

atom, dot, fleck, flyspeck, grain, granule, molecule, morsel, mote, nubbin, patch, scrap

dash, drop, pinch

part, portion, section

bite, nibble, taste

handful, scattering, smatter, smattering

dose, shot

chip, flake, fragment, shard, shiver, sliver, smithereens, splinter

shred, tatter

clipping, paring, shaving

Phrases Synonymous with glimmer

drop in the bucket

Near Antonyms of glimmer

abundance, barrel, boatload, bucket, bundle, bushel, deal, fistful, gobs, heaps, lashings (also lashins) [chiefly British], loads, lot, mass, mess, mountain, much, oodles, passel, peck, pile, plenty, potful, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, stack, wad, wealth

volume

bonanza, embarrassment, excess, overabundance, overage, overflow, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus

chunk, hunk, lump, slab

2 an almost imperceptible sign of something

most of the students showed not even a glimmer of interest in what I had to say

Synonyms of glimmer

breath, flicker, hint, suggestion, tang, touch, trace, whiff

Words Related to glimmer

inkling, intimation, scent, wind

evidence, indication, mark, sign

Near Antonyms of glimmer

permeation, pervasion, saturation

glimmer

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of glimmer

to shoot forth bursts of light

the waters of the rippling brook glimmered in the sun

Synonyms of glimmer

coruscate, flame, flash, glance, gleam, glint, glisten, glister, glitter, luster (or lustre), scintillate, shimmer, spangle, sparkle, twinkle, wink, winkle

Words Related to glimmer

beam, radiate, shine

bedazzle, blind, daze, dazzle

blaze, burn, flare, glare, glow

Synonym Discussion of glimmer

flash, gleam, glint, sparkle, glitter, glisten, glimmer, shimmer mean to send forth light. flash implies a sudden outburst of bright light.

- lightning flashed

gleam suggests a steady light seen through an obscuring medium or against a dark background.

- lights gleamed in the valley

glint implies a cold glancing light.

- glinting steel

sparkle suggests innumerable moving points of bright light.

- the sparkling waters

glitter connotes a brilliant sparkling or gleaming.

- glittering diamonds

glisten applies to the soft sparkle from a wet or oily surface.

- glistening wet sidewalk

glimmer suggests a faint or wavering gleam.

- a distant glimmering light

shimmer means shining with a wavering light.

- a shimmering satin dress

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