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Adjective sparkling has 4 senses
- sparkling - shining with brilliant points of light like stars; "sparkling snow"; "sparkling eyes"
Antonym: starless (indirect, via starry)
- 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)
- sparkling, effervescent - used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide; "sparkling wines"; "sparkling water"
Antonyms: still, noneffervescent
- 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)
Noun sparkling has 1 sense
- twinkle, scintillation, sparkling - a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash
--1 is a kind of change, alteration, modification
Verb sparkle has 4 senses
- sparkle, scintillate, coruscate - reflect brightly; "Unquarried marble sparkled on the hillside"
--1 is one way to reflect, shine
Sample sentences:
Lights sparkle on the horizon
The horizon is sparkleing with lights
- sparkle, scintillate, coruscate - be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity; "The musical performance sparkled"; "A scintillating conversation"; "his playing coruscated throught the concert hall"
--2 is one way to be
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- spark, sparkle - emit or produce sparks; "A high tension wire, brought down by a storm, can continue to spark"
--3 is one way to emit, give out, give off
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- foam, froth, fizz, effervesce, sparkle - form bubbles; "The boiling soup was frothing"; "The river was foaming"; "Sparkling water"
--4 is one way to bubble
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