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Scintillating

adjective
1.
Brilliantly clever.  "A play full of scintillating dialogue"
2.
Marked by high spirits or excitement.  Synonyms: bubbling, effervescent, frothy, sparkly.  "Scintillating personality" , "A row of sparkly cheerleaders"
3.
Having brief brilliant points or flashes of light.  Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, sparkly.  "Glinting eyes" , "Glinting water" , "His glittering eyes were cold and malevolent" , "Shop window full of glittering Christmas trees" , "Glittery costume jewelry" , "Scintillant mica" , "The scintillating stars" , "A dress with sparkly sequins" , "'glistering' is an archaic term"


Scintillate

verb
(past & past part. scintillated; pres. part. scintillating)
1.
Give off.
2.
Reflect brightly.  Synonyms: coruscate, sparkle.
3.
Emit or reflect light in a flickering manner.  Synonyms: twinkle, winkle.
4.
Physics: fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon.
5.
Be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity.  Synonyms: coruscate, sparkle.  "A scintillating conversation" , "His playing coruscated throughout the concert hall"



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"Scintillating" Quotes from Famous Books



... on the stoep of his bungalow. The African sun was bathing the landscape in a golden glory. Before him lay his garden, a medley of brilliant colour. Just beyond it was a field of green Indian corn, scintillating to silver as a little breeze swept its surface. Beyond it again lay the vineyard, and the thatched roof of an old Dutch farmhouse half hidden among trees. Farther off still rose the ...
— Antony Gray,--Gardener • Leslie Moore
... come across. In appearance she had, what can be best described as, the gipsy look, though she did not believe herself to have gipsy blood. Her complexion was swarthy, her hair was black, and her eyes dark and full of an eager and scintillating brightness which made her face light up and change with every mood of her mind and radiate a vivid intelligence. If anyone who knew her was asked to state the most memorable thing about her, I am sure the answer would be, "mobility," ...
— The Adventure of Living • John St. Loe Strachey
... or rows of oars are plainly seen, although, owing to their rapid motion, they appear to the naked eye as a single band of scintillating light. This and other magnified photographs were obtained by fastening the lens of a discarded bicycle lantern in a cone of paper blackened on the inside with shoe-blacking. With this crude apparatus placed in front of the lens of the camera, the ...
— The Log of the Sun - A Chronicle of Nature's Year • William Beebe
... they wuz good," reiterated Israel, as he looked around upon the group with scintillating eyes, and proceeded to hand his mug over the bar ...
— The Duke of Stockbridge • Edward Bellamy
... his eyes, in the dull light of this summer morning, he saw coiled within five feet of him a striped rattlesnake, its intensely black eyes fairly scintillating light, and its rattle gently waving but ...
— Adrift in the Wilds - or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys • Edward S. Ellis


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