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sheenest

sheenest is the superlative 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 sheenest

From Middle English shenest, from Old English sċēnost, sċȳnost, sċēonost, sċīenost, from Proto-Germanic *skaunistaz, superlative of Proto-Germanic *skauniz (“shiny; beautiful”), equivalent to sheen + -est (superlative suffix).

Questions about sheenest

What is sheenest the superlative form of?
Sheenest is the superlative form of sheen.

Words near sheenest in the dictionary

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

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