glimmery
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Given enough cold rain, a gray dusk that is fast glooming into black night, a pair of wet shoes, a skipped luncheon, a longing for people who are under the sod and a home that is only a memory, and the vaguest, glimmeriest bit of auld lang syne becomes in a twinkling a rampant friendship."
- "Silver-faced ribbons / A silver and rose one—or silver and orchid—or silver and blue! They are the loveliest, softest, glimmeriest things—and so rich, too."
- "MARIAH CAREY CAN GLIMMER UNTIL SHE DROPS. WE DON’T CARE. RON PROUSE SHOWS YOU HOW TO OUT-GLOW THE GLIMMERIEST, IF YOU’RE PREPARED TO GLOW, GLIMMER AND JUST GENERALLY ANNOY YOUR NEIGHBOURS. GO THE GLOWCOMOTIVE!"
- "Light, fresh and evanescent, they are suffused with the glimmery yellowness of East End light; it’s not quite yellow or white, but a color somewhere in between."
Etymology
From glimmer + -y.