sparkly
sparkly adjective: giving off sparks, or small flashes of light; glittery.
Adjective
sparkly (comparative sparklier, superlative sparkliest)
- Giving off sparks, or small flashes of light; glittery
- How sparkly the weeds are between the stones, and the moss on the roof—oh, and the flowers!1905 January – 1906 January, E[dith] Nesbit, “Peter’s Coal Mine”, in The Railway Children, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published 1906...
- They sailed smilingly into the room, the woman ahead, rustling in a long, sparkly, black dress.1906, Geraldine Bonner, The Castlecourt Diamond Case, Part 2
- Of a liquid: bubbly, effervescent.
- Then we drifted, with a head over ayther side, peerin' down through the sparkly water. For the world like the days I spint with the pearlers, watchin' the coral banks a-growin' the same as so many gardens under the sea.1900 April 7, Jack London, “(please specify the page number(s))”, in The Son of the Wolf: Tales of the Far North, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- bubblesome, fizzy, sparkling, abubble, bubbly, ebullient, effervescent, foamy, frothy, gassy
- Of a person: high-spirited and lively.
- a sparkly personality
sparkly meaning in Gujarati, Odia and Nepali
sparkly in Gujarati
- સ્પાર્કલી
sparkly in Odia
- ସ୍ପାର୍କଲି
sparkly in Nepali
- स्पार्कली
Examples of sparkly in a sentence
- And look at the way he painted it—a gloaty, sparkly white.
- She turned it inside out, showing everyone the sparkly blue lining so they could see it was empty.
- First was the flowing, purple A-line with a sparkly bodice.
Synonyms of sparkly
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Forms of sparkly
| comparative | sparklier |
|---|---|
| superlative | sparkliest |
Origin of sparkly
From sparkle + -y.
Words formed from sparkly
Questions about sparkly
- What does sparkly mean?
- Sparkly means giving off sparks, or small flashes of light; glittery.
- What is sparkly in Gujarati?
- Sparkly in Gujarati is સ્પાર્કલી. See Sparkly meaning in Gujarati.
- What part of speech is sparkly?
- Sparkly is an adjective.
Words near sparkly in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sparkly (page history and authors); sparkly (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sparkly (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sparkly (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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