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SCINTILLATING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scintillating mean? 

SCINTILLATING (adjective)
  The adjective SCINTILLATING has 3 senses:

1. brilliantly cleverplay

2. marked by high spirits or excitementplay

3. having brief brilliant points or flashes of lightplay

  Familiarity information: SCINTILLATING used as an adjective is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


SCINTILLATING (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Brilliantly clever

Context example:

a play full of scintillating dialogue

Similar:

intelligent (having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Marked by high spirits or excitement

Synonyms:

bubbling; effervescent; frothy; scintillating; sparkly

Context example:

a row of sparkly cheerleaders

Similar:

lively (full of life and energy)


Sense 3

Meaning:

Having brief brilliant points or flashes of light

Synonyms:

aglitter; coruscant; fulgid; glinting; glistering; glittering; glittery; scintillant; scintillating; sparkly

Context example:

'glistering' is an archaic term

Similar:

bright (emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts)


 Context examples 


His face was stern, the lines of it had grown hard, and yet in his eyes—blue, clear blue this day—there was a strange brilliancy, a bright scintillating light.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

You are scintillating this evening.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He held out his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric point in the dark hollow of his hand.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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