Meanings
- not comparableGlittering.
[…] by now his black eyes were aglitter with stars.
1968, Samuel R. Delany, chapter 1, in Nova, New York: Vintage, published 2002, page 143 more examples
The grass must have been growing during the night, for it is tickling our bare ankles; and sure of all coolness, none so refreshing to the frame as that which follows one’s foot-prints on meadow aglitter with morning dews.
1832 July, John Wilson, “Christopher at the Lakes”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume 32, number 196, page 121a light buggy, all aglitter from point to point of its natty furnishings, drew up at our gate
1912, Mary Austin, chapter 4, in A Woman of Genius, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, page 38The blacksmith was long gone, his ironwork aglitter like a gate to heaven.
2008, Toni Morrison, A Mercy, New York: Knopf, page 89
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivehaving brief brilliant points or flashes of light
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