Glittering vs Shiny - What's the difference?
glittering | shiny |
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)
Reflecting light.
* :
Emitting light.
(colloquial) Excellent; remarkable.
(obsolete) Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.
* (rfdate) (Dryden)
* The Lincolnshire Poacher (traditional song)
(informal) Anything shiny; a trinket.
As adjectives the difference between glittering and shiny
is that glittering is brightly sparkling while shiny is reflecting light.As nouns the difference between glittering and shiny
is that glittering is the appearance of something that glitters while shiny is (informal) anything shiny; a trinket.As a verb glittering
is .glittering
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(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.
shiny
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Adjective
(en-adj)- Bender: Bite my shiny metal ass!
- Like distant thunder on a shiny day.
- When I was bound apprentice in famous Lincolnshire
Full well I served my master for nigh on seven years
Till I took up to poaching as you shall quickly hear
Oh, 'tis my delight on a shiny night in the season of the year.