Glitters vs Sparkles - What's the difference?
glitters | sparkles |
(glitter)
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A bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage.
A shiny, decorative adornment, sometimes sprinkled on glue to make simple artwork.
To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam.
* Dryden
To be showy, specious, or striking, and hence attractive.
As verbs the difference between glitters and sparkles
is that glitters is third-person singular of glitter while sparkles is third-person singular of sparkle.As a noun sparkles is
plural of lang=en.glitters
English
Verb
(head)glitter
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- a glittering sword
- the glittering ornaments on a Christmas tree
- The field yet glitters with the pomp of war.
- the glittering scenes of a court