Word.ws English Dictionary

glist

glist noun: glimmer; mica.

Noun

glist

  1. glimmer; mica
    • Phosphate ore, mineral salt, graphite, glist, barites, abrasive2018, Tianming Gao, Vasilii Erokhin, Xiuhua Zhang, Handbook of Research on International Collaboration, Economic Development, and Sustainability in the Arctic, page 168

Origin of glist

From glisten.

Questions about glist

What does glist mean?
Glist means glimmer; mica.
What part of speech is glist?
Glist is a noun.

Words near glist in the dictionary

  1. Glisson
  2. Glissonian
  3. Glissonian capsule
  4. Glissonian capsules
  5. glissy
  6. glist
  7. glisten
  8. glistened
  9. glistener
  10. glisteners
  11. glisteneth

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: glist (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “glist.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/glist. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.