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SCINTILLATING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does scintillating mean?
• SCINTILLATING (adjective)
The adjective SCINTILLATING has 3 senses:
1. brilliantly clever
2. marked by high spirits or excitement
3. having brief brilliant points or flashes of light
Familiarity information: SCINTILLATING used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Brilliantly clever
Context example:
a play full of scintillating dialogue
Similar:
intelligent (having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Marked by high spirits or excitement
Synonyms:
bubbling; effervescent; frothy; scintillating; sparkly
Context example:
a row of sparkly cheerleaders
Similar:
lively (full of life and energy)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Having brief brilliant points or flashes of light
Synonyms:
aglitter; coruscant; fulgid; glinting; glistering; glittering; glittery; scintillant; scintillating; sparkly
Context example:
'glistering' is an archaic term
Similar:
bright (emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts)
Context examples
His face was stern, the lines of it had grown hard, and yet in his eyes—blue, clear blue this day—there was a strange brilliancy, a bright scintillating light.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
You are scintillating this evening.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He held out his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric point in the dark hollow of his hand.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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