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sparkly

sparkly adjective: giving off sparks, or small flashes of light; glittery.

Adjective

sparkly (comparative sparklier, superlative sparkliest)

  1. 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
  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
  3. 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.

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Synonyms of sparkly

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Forms of sparkly

comparativesparklier
superlativesparkliest

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

  1. sparkling wine
  2. sparkling wines
  3. sparklingly
  4. sparklingness
  5. sparklings
  6. sparkly
  7. Sparkman
  8. Sparkmans
  9. sparko
  10. sparkover
  11. sparkover voltage

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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