Glittery vs Glittering - What's the difference?
glittery | glittering |
Brightly sparkling.
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*:It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
(lb) Valuable, desirable.
*1994 , (Nelson Mandela), (Long Walk to Freedom) , Abacus 2010, p.85:
*:Gaur was an example of a man without a BA who seemed infinitely better educated than the fellows who left Fort Hare with glittering degrees.
The appearance of something that glitters.
* (John Locke)
As adjectives the difference between glittery and glittering
is that glittery is that glitters while glittering is brightly sparkling.As a verb glittering is
.As a noun glittering is
the appearance of something that glitters.glittering
English
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(en adjective)Synonyms
* aglitterNoun
(en noun)- Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings , truth from appearances.