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glitterant

glitterant adjective: synonym of glittery.

Adjective

glitterant (comparative more glitterant, superlative most glitterant)

  1. (archaic, poetic, rare) Synonym of glittery.
    • Therefore aboue the rest Ambition sat: / His Court with glitterant pearle was all enwall’d, / And round about the wall in chaires of State, / And most maiestique splendor, wear enstall’d / A hundred Kings, whose temples wear impal’d / In goulden diadems, set here, and thear / With diamounds, and...1610, G[iles] Fletcher, Christs Victorie, and Triumph in Heauen, and Earth, Ouer, and After Death, Cambridge: […] C. Legge, page 42
    • The Tomb nor Marble was, nor glitterant Brass, / No weighty Pile, but Bank of Turfy Grass, / Which he himself cast up, and all around, / With Winter Roses strewd the sacred Ground.1679, Samuel Woodford, A Paraphrase upon the Canticles, and Some Select Hymns of the New and Old Testament with Other Occasional Compositions in English Verse, London: […] J.D. for John Baker […] and...
    Synonyms:
    glittery

Synonyms of glitterant

Forms of glitterant

comparativemore glitterant
superlativemost glitterant

Origin of glitterant

From glitter + -ant.

Questions about glitterant

What does glitterant mean?
Glitterant means synonym of glittery.
What part of speech is glitterant?
Glitterant is an adjective.

Words near glitterant in the dictionary

  1. glitter rock
  2. glitter strip
  3. glitterance
  4. glitterances
  5. glitterand
  6. glitterant
  7. glitterati
  8. glitteratus
  9. glitterball
  10. glitterballs
  11. glitterbillies

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