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scintillant

/ˈsɪntɪlənt/

scintillant adjective: that scintillates.

Adjective

scintillant (comparative more scintillant, superlative most scintillant)

  1. That scintillates.
    • The father said with patience, "I will bestow on you my fine white horse, my Expansible Egg for your shelter, my Scintillant Dagger to illuminate the night […]1950, Jack Vance, Dying Earth
    • It had suddenly began to snow, though the sky was pure platinum, and the slow scintillant downcome got reflected in the silent looking glass.1957 March 7, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 2.2, in Pnin, Heinemann, page 34

scintillant meaning in Tamil

scintillant in Tamil

தளதளப்பான, பொறி காலுகிற

Forms of scintillant

comparativemore scintillant
superlativemost scintillant

Questions about scintillant

What does scintillant mean?
Scintillant means that scintillates.
What is scintillant in Tamil?
Scintillant in Tamil is தளதளப்பான, பொறி காலுகிற. See Scintillant meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is scintillant?
Scintillant is an adjective.
How do you pronounce scintillant?
Scintillant is pronounced /ˈsɪntɪlənt/.

Words near scintillant in the dictionary

  1. scintilator
  2. scintilla
  3. scintillae
  4. scintillance
  5. scintillances
  6. scintillant
  7. scintillantly
  8. scintillas
  9. scintillate
  10. scintillated
  11. scintillates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scintillant (page history and authors); scintillant (Tamil Wiktionary) (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.

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