Words Like SHIMMER

We have put together a list of words that are similar to SHIMMER.

11 Alternative Words Similar to shimmer

1 Play Noun      Synonym Words Like Play
2 Alteration Noun      Synonym Words Like Alteration
3 Change Noun      Synonym Words Like Change
4 Modification Noun      Synonym Words Like Modification
5 Beam Verb      Synonym Words Like Beam
6 Gleam Verb      Synonym Words Like Gleam
7 Shine Verb      Synonym Words Like Shine
8 Shimmered Verb-intransitive      Form Words Like Shimmered
9 Shimmering Verb-intransitive      Form Words Like Shimmering
10 Glimmer Verb-intransitive      Synonym Words Like Glimmer
11 Gleaming Noun      Synonym Words Like Gleaming

1 examples of shimmer

1 the play of light on the water

10 definitions of shimmer

1 To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer.
2 A faint, tremulous light; a gleaming; a glimmer.
3 shine with a weak or fitful light
4 give off a shimmering reflection, as of silk
5 a weak and tremulous light
6 To shine with a subdued flickering light. See Synonyms at flash.
7 To appear as a wavering or flickering image, as in a reflection on water or through heat waves in air.
8 A flickering or tremulous light; a glimmer.
9 To shine with a veiled, tremulous light; gleam faintly.
10 A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining.
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