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glinty

glinty adjective: tending to glint.

Adjective

glinty (comparative more glinty or glintier, superlative most glinty or glintiest)

  1. Tending to glint.
    • What followers really need to know is that John Jeffrey Martin, who plays Troy, the captain of the basketball team who discovers his inner drama geek, sings well and is very cute, with a nice smile and glinty blue eyes.2007 August 11, Charles Isherwood, “A Prayerful Three-Pointer From the Orchestra Pit”, in New York Times

Forms of glinty

comparativemore glinty
comparativeglintier
superlativemost glinty
superlativeglintiest

Origin of glinty

From glint + -y.

Words formed from glinty

Words that rhyme with glinty

Questions about glinty

What does glinty mean?
Glinty means tending to glint.
What part of speech is glinty?
Glinty is an adjective.

Words near glinty in the dictionary

  1. glintingly
  2. glintings
  3. Glinton
  4. glints
  5. glints in the milkman's eye
  6. glinty
  7. glio-
  8. glioblast
  9. glioblastoma
  10. glioblastoma multiforme
  11. glioblastoma multiformes

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