Usually means: Reflective surface that emits brightness.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word shiny:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. shiny: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. shiny: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shiny: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shiny: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shiny: Vocabulary.com
  6. Shiny, shiny: Wordnik
  7. shiny: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. shiny: Wiktionary
  9. shiny: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. shiny: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. shiny: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. shiny: Dictionary.com
  13. shiny: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Shiny (Disney song), Shiny (disambiguation), Shiny: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Shiny: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. shiny: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. shiny: Rhymezone
  18. shiny: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. shiny: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. shiny: Free Dictionary
  21. shiny: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. shiny: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shiny: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shiny, shiny: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Shiny: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Reflecting light.
▸ adjective:  Emitting light.
▸ adjective:  (colloquial) Excellent; remarkable.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.
▸ noun:  (informal) Anything shiny; a trinket.
▸ noun:  (slang) Contraction of disparaging term "shiny arses", originating during World War Two, to describe a desk worker.https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mAdUqLrKw4YC&pg=PA1717

Similar:
shining, glistening, lustrous, glossy, bright, glazed, polished, icy, clear, sunshiny, more...

Opposite:
dull, matte, non-glossy

Types:
lustrous, gleaming, glossy, polished, brilliant, sparkling, radiant, more...

Phrases:
shiny cowbird, shiny lyonia, Shiny Entertainment, Shiny Happy People, Big Shiny Tunes, more...

Adjectives:
more, little, black, dark, smooth, new, real, bright, long, small, white

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     chrome,     metallic blue,     iridescent purple, more...



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Similar:
shining, glistening, lustrous, glossy, bright, glazed, polished, icy, clear, sunshiny, more...

Opposite:
dull, matte, non-glossy

Types:
lustrous, gleaming, glossy, polished, brilliant, sparkling, radiant, more...

Phrases:
shiny cowbird, shiny lyonia, Shiny Entertainment, Shiny Happy People, Big Shiny Tunes, Shiny Toy Guns, Shiny object syndrome, Shiny Doshi, Shiny Abraham, Rudolph's Shiny New Year, The Shiny Show, Shiny Dixit, more...

Adjectives:
more, little, black, dark, smooth, new, real, bright, long, small, white

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     chrome,     metallic blue,     iridescent purple, more...



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