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Adjective scintillating has 3 senses
- scintillating - brilliantly clever; "scintillating wit"; "a play full of scintillating dialogue"
Antonyms: unintelligent, stupid (indirect, via intelligent)
- bubbling, effervescent, scintillating, sparkling, sparkly - marked by high spirits or excitement; "his fertile effervescent mind"; "scintillating personality"; "sparkling conversation"; "a row of sparkly cheerleaders"
Antonym: dull (indirect, via lively)
- aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkling, sparkly - having brief brilliant points or flashes of light; "bugle beads all aglitter"; "glinting eyes"; "glinting water"; "his glittering eyes were cold and malevolent"; "shop window full of glittering Christmas trees"; "glittery costume jewelry"; "scintillant mica"; "the scintillating stars"; "a dress with sparkly sequins"; "`glistering' is an archaic term"
Antonym: dull (indirect, via bright)
Verb scintillate has 5 senses
- scintillate - give off; "the substance scintillated sparks and flashes"
--1 is one way to emit, give out, give off
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- sparkle, scintillate, coruscate - reflect brightly; "Unquarried marble sparkled on the hillside"
--2 is one way to reflect, shine
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- twinkle, winkle, scintillate - emit or reflect light in a flickering manner; "Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?"
--3 is one way to shine, beam
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- scintillate - physics: fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon; "the phosphor fluoresced"
--4 is one way to fluoresce
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- sparkle, scintillate, coruscate - be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity; "The musical performance sparkled"; "A scintillating conversation"; "his playing coruscated throught the concert hall"
--5 is one way to be
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