Usually means: Shining with a sparkling light.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. glistering: Merriam-Webster
  2. glistering: Collins English Dictionary
  3. glistering: Vocabulary.com
  4. glistering: Wordnik
  5. glistering: Wiktionary
  6. Glistering, glistering: Dictionary.com
  7. Glistering: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. glistering: Rhymezone
  9. Glistering: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. glistering: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. glistering: FreeDictionary.org
  12. glistering: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. glistering: TheFreeDictionary.com

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. GLISTERING: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

(Note: See glister as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (glistering)

▸ adjective:  Glistening, glittering, gleaming, shining.

Similar:
sparkly, aglitter, fulgid, glittery, scintillating, glinting, scintillant, bright, glimmerous, glimmery, more...

Opposite:
dull, tarnished, lackluster, dim

Types:
glistening, glisteningly, glisteningness, more...

Adjectives:
stale, false, deep, gay, white, mazy

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Similar:
sparkly, aglitter, fulgid, glittery, scintillating, glinting, scintillant, bright, glimmerous, glimmery, more...

Opposite:
dull, tarnished, lackluster, dim

Types:
glistening, glisteningly, glisteningness, more...

Adjectives:
stale, false, deep, gay, white, mazy



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