Word.ws English Dictionary

shines on

shines on is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shine on.

Meaning of shine on

Verb

shine on (third-person singular simple present shines on, present participle shining on, simple past and past participle shined on or shone on)

  1. (imperative, informal, intransitive, usually) To continue to excel.
    • Keep shining on, champion!
  2. (US, informal, transitive) To humor (someone) or be condescending to (someone); to pretend to take (someone) seriously; to tell a tall tale; to pull someone's leg.
  3. (US, informal, transitive) To deliberately insult or aggravate (someone).

Questions about shines on

What is shines on the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Shines on is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shine on.

Words near shines on in the dictionary

  1. shines a light on
  2. shines down on
  3. shines down upon
  4. shines light on
  5. shines off
  6. shines on
  7. shines through
  8. shines up
  9. shiness
  10. shinest
  11. shineth

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shines on (page history and authors); shine on (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “shines on.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/shines_on. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.