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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. reflecting light;
- Example: "glistening bodies of swimmers"
- Example: "the horse's glossy coat"
- Example: "lustrous auburn hair"
- Example: "saw the moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet"
- Example: "shining white enamel"
[syn: glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shiny, shining]

2. having a shiny surface or coating;
- Example: "glazed fabrics"
- Example: "glazed doughnuts"
[syn: glazed, shiny]

3. made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow;
- Example: "bright silver candlesticks"
- Example: "a burnished brass knocker"
- Example: "she brushed her hair until it fell in lustrous auburn waves"
- Example: "rows of shining glasses"
- Example: "shiny black patents"
[syn: bright, burnished, lustrous, shining, shiny]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Shiny \Shin"y\, a. [Compar. Shinier; superl. Shiniest.]
   Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.
   [1913 Webster]

         Like distant thunder on a shiny day.     --Dryden.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

shiny
    adj 1: reflecting light; "glistening bodies of swimmers"; "the
           horse's glossy coat"; "lustrous auburn hair"; "saw the
           moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet";
           "shining white enamel" [syn: glistening, glossy,
           lustrous, sheeny, shiny, shining]
    2: having a shiny surface or coating; "glazed fabrics"; "glazed
       doughnuts" [syn: glazed, shiny] [ant: unglazed]
    3: made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a
       sheen or glow; "bright silver candlesticks"; "a burnished
       brass knocker"; "she brushed her hair until it fell in
       lustrous auburn waves"; "rows of shining glasses"; "shiny
       black patents" [syn: bright, burnished, lustrous,
       shining, shiny]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

114 Moby Thesaurus words for "shiny":
   aglow, beaming, beamy, bleached, blushing, bright,
   bright and sunny, buffed, burning, burnished, candescent, clean,
   cleanly, coruscating, dainty, dazzling, dirt-free, fair,
   fastidious, finished, flashing, flashy, flickering, flushing,
   fresh, fulgent, furbished, glace, glassy, glazed, gleaming, gleamy,
   glinting, glistening, glittering, glossy, glowing, illuminant,
   immaculate, incandescent, irradiative, kosher, lacquered, lambent,
   lamping, light as day, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant,
   luminative, luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lustrous,
   nonpolluted, of cleanly habits, orient, polished, pure, radiant,
   ritually pure, rubbed, rutilant, rutilous, satiny, scintillating,
   sheeny, shellacked, shimmering, shimmery, shined, shining, silken,
   silky, sleek, slick, smut-free, smutless, sparkling, spotless,
   stainless, starbright, starlike, starry, streaming, suffused,
   sunny, sunshiny, sweet, tahar, tubbed, twinkling, unadulterated,
   unbesmirched, unblemished, unblotted, undefiled, unmuddied,
   unpolluted, unsmirched, unsmudged, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained,
   unsullied, untainted, untarnished, varnished, velvety,
   well-scrubbed, well-washed, white, whitened