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Shimmery vs Glimmery - What's the difference?

shimmery | glimmery |

As adjectives the difference between shimmery and glimmery

is that shimmery is appearing to shimmer, glistening while glimmery is glimmering; shimmery.

shimmery

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Appearing to shimmer, glistening.
  • * 1957 , Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
    • And then, far off, around a curve of silver track, comes the trolley, balanced on four small steel-blue wheels, and it is painted the color of tangerines. Epaulets of shimmery brass cover it and pipings of gold

    Derived terms

    * shimmeriness

    Anagrams

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    glimmery

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • glimmering; shimmery
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=June 7, author=Benjamin Genocchio, title=The Glimmer of East End Light, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Light, fresh and evanescent, they are suffused with the glimmery yellowness of East End light; it’s not quite yellow or white, but a color somewhere in between. }}