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scintillous

scintillous adjective: scintillating; sparkling.

Adjective

scintillous (comparative more scintillous, superlative most scintillous)

  1. (obsolete, rare) scintillating; sparkling

Forms of scintillous

comparativemore scintillous
superlativemost scintillous

Questions about scintillous

What does scintillous mean?
Scintillous means scintillating; sparkling.
What part of speech is scintillous?
Scintillous is an adjective.

Words near scintillous in the dictionary

  1. scintillometrically
  2. scintillometry
  3. scintillon
  4. scintilloscope
  5. scintilloscopes
  6. scintillous
  7. scintimammographies
  8. scintimammography
  9. scintiphotography
  10. scintiscan
  11. scintiscanned

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