Usually means: Shiny and reflective, often wet.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. glistening: Merriam-Webster
  2. glistening: Collins English Dictionary
  3. glistening: Vocabulary.com
  4. Glistening, glistening: Wordnik
  5. glistening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. glistening: Wiktionary
  7. Glistening, glistening: Dictionary.com
  8. glistening: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Glistening: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. glistening: Rhymezone
  11. Glistening: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. glistening: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. glistening: FreeDictionary.org
  14. glistening: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. glistening: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. glistening: Encyclopedia

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  1. glistening: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (glistening)

▸ noun:  The appearance of something that glistens.
▸ noun:  (optics) A fluid-filled microvacuole within a lens.

Similar:
shiny, lustrous, shining, glossy, bright, sheeny, glinting, gleaming, sparkling, gloss, more...

Opposite:
dull, matte, non-shiny, opaque

Types:
sparkling, shimmering, glowing, radiant, lustrous, incandescent, more...

Phrases:
glistening rocks, opposite of glistening, glistening glass of water, metal glistening, more...

Colors:
    silver,     gold,     pearl,     platinum,     diamond, more...



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Similar:
shiny, lustrous, shining, glossy, bright, sheeny, glinting, gleaming, sparkling, gloss, more...

Opposite:
dull, matte, non-shiny, opaque

Types:
sparkling, shimmering, glowing, radiant, lustrous, incandescent, more...

Phrases:
glistening rocks, opposite of glistening, glistening glass of water, metal glistening, more...

Colors:
    silver,     gold,     pearl,     platinum,     diamond, more...



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