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sheener

sheener is the comparative form of sheen.

Meaning of sheen

Adjective

sheen (comparative sheener, superlative sheenest)

  1. (archaic, poetic, rare, usually) Beautiful, good-looking, attractive, fair; bright, radiant; shiny.
    • Up rose each warrier bold and brave, / Glistening in filed steel and armor sheen.1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield...
  2. (archaic, poetic, rare, usually) Clear, pure, clean; noble, illustrious; (by extension) innocent, chaste.
    • […] And all her crystal springs, whence clear and sheen
      Her brooks receive the wat'ry element, […]1822, William Tennant, The Thane of Fife: A Poem, in Six Cantos, page 48

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Origin of sheener

From Middle English schenre, from Old English sċēnra, sċȳnra, from Proto-Germanic *skaunizô, comparative of Proto-Germanic *skauniz (“shiny; beautiful”), equivalent to sheen + -er.

Questions about sheener

What is sheener the comparative form of?
Sheener is the comparative form of sheen.

Words near sheener in the dictionary

  1. sheen obsidian
  2. sheen obsidians
  3. Sheena
  4. sheene
  5. sheened
  6. sheener
  7. sheenest
  8. sheeney
  9. sheeneys
  10. sheenful
  11. sheenie

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