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shining

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of shining

giving off or reflecting much light

the shining moon formed a nice backdrop for our outdoor concert

Synonyms of shining

beaming, bedazzling, bright, brilliant, candescent, clear, dazzling, effulgent, fulgent, glowing, incandescent, lambent, lucent, lucid, luminous, lustrous, radiant, refulgent, sheeny, shiny, splendid

Words Related to shining

ablaze, ardent, blazing, burning, combusting, fiery, flaming, red-hot

agleam, aglitter, blinding, coruscant, flaring, flashing, flickering, gemmy, glancing, glaring, gleaming, glimmering, glinting, glistening, glistering, glittering, scintillant, scintillating, shimmering, shimmery, sparkling, sunny, twinkling, winking

burnished, polished, shined

superbright, ultrabright

Near Antonyms of shining

blackened, dark, darkened, darkish, darkling, darksome, dimmed, dusky, gloomy, lightless, murky, obscure, obscured, pitch-black, pitch-dark, somber (or sombre), sunless, tenebrous, unlit

cloudy, shadowlike, shadowy, shady

gray (also grey), leaden, pale, palish

Antonyms of shining

dim, dull, lackluster, unbright, unbrilliant

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