Usually means: Glistening lightly with small flickers.
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  1. shimmering: Merriam-Webster
  2. shimmering: Collins English Dictionary
  3. shimmering: Vocabulary.com
  4. Shimmering, shimmering: Wordnik
  5. shimmering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. shimmering: Wiktionary
  7. shimmering: Dictionary.com
  8. shimmering: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Shimmering: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. shimmering: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Shimmering: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. shimmering: FreeDictionary.org
  13. shimmering: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. shimmering: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shimmering)

▸ noun:  A gleam or glimmer.

Similar:
bright, glimmering, glittering, twinkling, flittering, coruscance, owl light, glanceful, tinselry, clinquant, more...

Opposite:
dull, dullness

Types:
glitter, sparkle, twinkle, glimmer, shine, glisten, flash, glint, more...

Phrases:
shimmering as if underwater, shimmering sun, more...

Adjectives:
faint, green, more, blue, light, white, pale, great, metallic, long, slight

Colors:
    silver,     gold,     pearl,     opal,     champagne, more...



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Similar:
bright, glimmering, glittering, twinkling, flittering, coruscance, owl light, glanceful, tinselry, clinquant, more...

Opposite:
dull, dullness

Types:
glitter, sparkle, twinkle, glimmer, shine, glisten, flash, glint, more...

Phrases:
shimmering as if underwater, shimmering sun, more...

Adjectives:
faint, green, more, blue, light, white, pale, great, metallic, long, slight

Colors:
    silver,     gold,     pearl,     opal,     champagne, more...



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