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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. brilliantly clever;
- Example: "scintillating wit"
- Example: "a play full of scintillating dialogue"

2. marked by high spirits or excitement;
- Example: "his fertile effervescent mind"
- Example: "scintillating personality"
- Example: "a row of sparkly cheerleaders"
[syn: bubbling, effervescent, frothy, scintillating, sparkly]

3. having brief brilliant points or flashes of light;
- Example: "bugle beads all aglitter"
- Example: "glinting eyes"
- Example: "glinting water"
- Example: "his glittering eyes were cold and malevolent"
- Example: "shop window full of glittering Christmas trees"
- Example: "glittery costume jewelry"
- Example: "scintillant mica"
- Example: "the scintillating stars"
- Example: "a dress with sparkly sequins"
- Example: "`glistering' is an archaic term"
[syn: aglitter(p), coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Scintillate \Scin"til*late\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Scintillated;
   p. pr. & vb. n. Scintillating.] [L. scintillare,
   scintillatum, from scintilla a spark. Cf. Stencil.]
   1. To emit sparks, or fine igneous particles.
      [1913 Webster]

            As the electrical globe only scintillates when
            rubbed against its cushion.           --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To sparkle, as the fixed stars.
      [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

scintillating
    adj 1: brilliantly clever; "scintillating wit"; "a play full of
           scintillating dialogue"
    2: marked by high spirits or excitement; "his fertile
       effervescent mind"; "scintillating personality"; "a row of
       sparkly cheerleaders" [syn: bubbling, effervescent,
       frothy, scintillating, sparkly]
    3: having brief brilliant points or flashes of light; "bugle
       beads all aglitter"; "glinting eyes"; "glinting water"; "his
       glittering eyes were cold and malevolent"; "shop window full
       of glittering Christmas trees"; "glittery costume jewelry";
       "scintillant mica"; "the scintillating stars"; "a dress with
       sparkly sequins"; "`glistering' is an archaic term" [syn:
       aglitter(p), coruscant, fulgid, glinting,
       glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant,
       scintillating, sparkly]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

119 Moby Thesaurus words for "scintillating":
   Attic, ablaze, adroit, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, apt,
   ardent, biting, blazing, blinking, blinky, brainy, bright,
   brilliant, burning, candent, candescent, clever, comburent,
   conflagrant, coruscant, coruscating, dazzling, dexterous, droll,
   dynamic, effervescent, effulgent, engaging, entrancing, exciting,
   facetious, fascinating, flagrant, flaming, flaring, flashing,
   flickering, fuming, funny, gifted, gleaming, glimmering,
   glimmerous, glimmery, glistening, glistering, glittering, glittery,
   glowing, good, guttering, humorous, humorsome, ignescent, ignited,
   in a blaze, in a glow, in flames, incandescent, inflamed,
   invigorating, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, joky, joshing,
   keen, keen-witted, kindled, live, lively, living, lustrous,
   mordant, nimble, nimble-witted, no dumbbell, not born yesterday,
   on fire, pointed, pungent, quick, quick-thinking, quick-witted,
   radiant, rapier-like, reeking, salt, salty, scintillant,
   scintillescent, sharp, sharp-witted, shimmering, shimmery, shining,
   smart, smoking, smoldering, spangly, sparking, sparkling,
   sprightly, steel-trap, stimulating, talented, tinselly, twinkling,
   twinkly, unextinguished, unquenched, vivacious, whimsical, witty