Usually means: Sparkling or shining brightly; fascinating.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word scintillating:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. scintillating: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. scintillating: Merriam-Webster
  3. scintillating: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. scintillating: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scintillating: Vocabulary.com
  6. Scintillating, scintillating: Wordnik
  7. scintillating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. scintillating: Wiktionary
  9. scintillating: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. scintillating: Dictionary.com
  11. scintillating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Scintillating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. scintillating: Rhymezone
  14. Scintillating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. scintillating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. scintillating: FreeDictionary.org
  17. scintillating: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. scintillating: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. scintillating: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scintillating: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scintillating: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  That scintillates with brief flashes of light; sparkling.
▸ adjective:  (figurative) Brilliantly or impressively clever, exciting, amusing or witty.

Similar:
glittering, aglitter, scintillant, glistering, sparkly, glinting, fulgid, bright, lively, bubbling, more...

Opposite:
dull, dullness, dullard

Phrases:
Scintillating scotoma, not at all scintillating, opposite of opposite of scintillating, opposite of scintillating, more...

Adjectives:
more, less, silvery, gold, probable

Colors:
    sparkling silver,     vibrant turquoise,     electric blue, more...



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Similar:
glittering, aglitter, scintillant, glistering, sparkly, glinting, fulgid, bright, lively, bubbling, more...

Opposite:
dull, dullness, dullard

Phrases:
Scintillating scotoma, not at all scintillating, opposite of opposite of scintillating, opposite of scintillating, more...

Adjectives:
more, less, silvery, gold, probable

Colors:
    sparkling silver,     vibrant turquoise,     electric blue, more...



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