shiny
bright or glossy in appearance.
filled with light, as by sunshine.
rubbed or worn to a glossy smoothness, as clothes.
Origin of shiny
1Other words for shiny
1, 2 | brilliant, shining, gleaming, glistening |
Other words from shiny
- shin·i·ly, adverb
- shin·i·ness, noun
- un·shin·y, adjective
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How to use shiny in a sentence
The old mahogany chairs upholstered in hair cloth were shinily forbidding.
Chicken Little Jane | Lily Munsell RitchieOlive Dunleavy was shinily present, her ash-blond hair in a new coiffure.
The Trail of the Hawk | Sinclair LewisBest enters in hairdresser's attire, shinily laundered, his locks in curlpapers.
Ulysses | James JoyceEverywhere the shell-craters show up shinily in the aerial photographs, with their water reflecting the light like silver mirrors.
From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 | Philip Gibbs
British Dictionary definitions for shiny
/ (ˈʃaɪnɪ) /
glossy or polished; bright
(of clothes or material) worn to a smooth and glossy state, as by continual rubbing
Derived forms of shiny
- shininess, noun
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