gleaming

[glee-ming]

adjective

1. giving off or appearing to give off light or brightness; radiant; shining.

   A cold, gray light filtered down through the bushes and lay on the faintly gleaming sand.

   The newest release is a gleaming composite of epic, unabashedly pretty '70s songwriting and fancy-pants disco hedonism.

Other Word Forms

• gleamingly adverb
• ungleaming adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of gleaming¹

gleam ( def. ) + -ing ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

Inside the workshop, gleaming rows of polished pianos are packed in closely together.

From BBC

He vowed to “restore the city back to the gleaming capital that everybody wants it to be.”

From Los Angeles Times

Their old-money neighbors find the enormous, gleaming structure to be garish.

From Salon

Sixteen miles south of Epping, residents in Canary Wharf, east London, live in gleaming glass towers and traditional East End houses alongside another asylum hotel.

From BBC

In Gurugram, an upscale suburb just outside Delhi, gleaming SUVs, futuristic skyscrapers and neat apartments stand in stark contrast to nearby mosquito swarms, trash heaps and tarpaulin shanties.

From BBC

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• lustrous 
• polished 
• shining 
• shiny 
• sleek