Shiny

Definition: Shiny

Shiny

Adjective

1. Reflecting light; "glistening bodies of swimmers"; "the horse's glossy coat"; "lustrous auburn hair"; "saw the moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet"; "shining white enamel".

2. Having a shiny surface or coating; "glazed fabrics"; "glazed doughnuts".

3. Made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow; "bright silver candlesticks"; "a burnished brass knocker"; "she brushed her hair until it fell in lustrous auburn waves"; "rows of shining glasses"; "shiny black patents".

4. Abounding with sunlight; "a bright sunny day"; "one shining norming"- John Muir; "when it is warm and shiny".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "shiny" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Note: Shiny \Shin"y\, adjective. [Comparative Shinier; superlative Shiniest.]. (references)

Synonyms: Shiny

Crosswords: Shiny

And a blimp, a big, shiny blimp and it's slowly moving south (Hot Shots!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; Pat Proft)

Very shiny train (Rain Man; writing credit: Ronald Bass)

Okay, okay, I see it now, the big shiny one right there, right, right, that one there (Shrek; writing credit: Ted Elliott)

And remember, a shiny new donkey for whomever brings me the head of Colonel Montoya (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Get yer shiny new butt skyward and scout around (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio)

Shiny happy people laughing (Shiny Happy People; performing artist: R.E.M.)

And if you win you get this shiny fiddle made of gold ("The Devil Went Down to Georgia"; performing artist: Charlie Daniels Band)

Making the life that I had seem suddenly shiny and new (Little Jeannie; performing artist: Elton John)

Perfect shiny and new (I will buy you a new life; performing artist: Everclear)

Shiny and new (Like A Virgin; performing artist: Madonna)

The Shiny Show (2002)

Rudolph's Shiny New Year (1975)

Shiny Happy People (performing artist: R.E.M.)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• One Shiny Easter (reference)

• Rob's Shiny Dump Truck (Fisher Price) (reference)

• Shiny Adidas Tracksuits and the Death of Camp: And Other Essays (reference)

• Shiny Dinah: Sing, Dance, and Read With Me (reference)

• Shiny Race Car (Shiny Vehicles) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Year Without a Santa Claus/Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey/Rudolph's Shiny New Year (reference)

• Rudolph's Shiny New Year (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Shiny New Shoes (reference)

• Shiny Things (reference)

• Teen Shiny (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• 100-pack CDR Media 650MB 74min 16x Shiny Gold Spindle (reference)

• 150-pack CDR Media 16x 80min 700m Data Spindle Blank Shiny (reference)

• Maxell CDR Media 650MB 74 Min 16x Shiny Gold with slim Line Case (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Conair CS5CS Shiny Big Waves Setter (reference)

• Conair CS7CS Shiny Straight Hair Straightener (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Skin cancer may appear a small, smooth, shiny, pale, waxy lump. See artwork: RR-15b, WYNTK-22b. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Yersinia pestis grows well on most standard laboratory media, after 48-72 hours, grey-white to slightly yellow opaque raised, irregular “fried egg” morphology; alternatively colonies may have a “hammered copper” shiny surface. Credit: CDC.

C. botulinum is a strictly anaerobic bacterium that when grown on egg yolk agar, its colonies will exhibit a lipase reaction, described as the shiny area around each colony. Credit: CDC.

One of his wet, shiny arms was round Mamie's waist. Credit: Library of Congress.

Conversion. Rowing shells to life rafts. Smooth and shiny as satin instrument covers made from plywood undergo final sanding. The worker operating the electric sander made rowing shells before the plant where he is employed converted to war production. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Sleek slimy coats, little little feet tucked up to jump, black shiny eyes to look out of.

His jeans and shirt were thick and shiny with old grease, and his hands cracked and lined and cut.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Often triggered by trauma or nerve damage, RSDS causes the skin of the affected area to become characteristically shiny. (references)

Business

Transparent, matte and shiny fabrics represent the latest trends. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "shiny": be shiny ♦ become shiny ♦ shiny lyonia ♦ shiny material of alpaca ♦ shiny side. Additional references.

Beginning with "shiny": shiny-black, shiny-clean, shiny-elbowed, shiny-eyed, shiny-faced, shiny-leaved, shiny-rippled, shiny-topped.

Ending with "shiny": mirror-shiny, too-shiny.

Albanian

me shkëlqim (brightly, glaringly, glossy, lustrous, richly, shining, sleek), i shndritshëm (bright, brilliant, effulgent, glaring, glistening, lucent, lustrous), i ndritur, i ndritshëm (alert, bright, brilliant, flaming, light, lucid, sheeny, shining, splendent, starry), i feksur (lambent). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مشرق (agleam, beaming, beamy, bright, brilliant, clear, luminous, radiant, shining, splendid, vivid), ‏لامع (blazing, bright, brilliant, burnished, dazzling, flamboyant, flashing, glazed, gleaming, glimmering, glistering, glittering, glossed, glossy, golden, high, lambent, lucid, lustrous, outstanding, polished, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, sheen, shining, showy, sleek, slick, sparkle, sparkling, star, staring), ‏بهيج (airy, cheerful, convivial, festive, glad, happy, lovely, merry, unstressed), ‏براق (brilliant, flaming, glossy, incandescent, lustrous, meretricious, opalescent, prismatic, radiant, sheeny, shining, specular, tawdriness). (various references)

Bulgarian 

лъскав (agleam, chatoyant, ganoid, glace, glazy, glossy, lustrous, satiny, sheeny, sleek), износен (burnt-out, inexpensive, napless, old, outworn, profitable, scruffy, shabby, threadbare, well worn, worn out), излъскан (glossy). (various references)

Chinese 

發亮 (shine), 发光 (Glowed, Glowing, Radiance, Shined, shining, Shone). (various references)

Czech

lesklý (bright, glassy, gleaming, glossal, glossy, polished, resplendent, shining, tawdry). (various references)

Farsi 

پرنور, صیقلی (Glossy, Levigate, Reflective, Sleek, Slight, Smooth), افتابی (Bright, Sunny), درخشان (Ablaze, Bright, Illustrious, Lucid, Luminous, Phosphorescent, Shiner, Starry, Stellar), براق (Glossy, Lucid, Silken, Sleek, Splendid). (various references)

Finnish

kirkas (bright, clear, limpid), kiiltävä (bright, glossy). (various references)

French

rayonnant (shining), lustré (sheeny), luisant (sheen, shining), brillant (sheen, shine, shining, shone). (various references)

German

glänzend (brilliant, brilliantly, clinking, dazzling, effulgent, effulgently, gleaming, gleamy, glistening, glittering, glossily, glossing, glossy, ingenious, ingeniously, lustered, lustrous, lustrously, marvelous, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, resplendently, sheeny, shinily, shining, sparkling, splendid, splendidly, vintage). (various references)

Greek 

στιλπνόσ (lucent, lustrous, polished, sleek, splendent), γυαλιστερός (glossy), λάμπων (ablaze, aglow, alight, effulgent, incandescent, lucent, refulgent, spangly, sparkling, splendent), λαμπερόσ (bright, glowing, lucent). (various references)

Hebrew 

מבריק (brilliant, glossy, glowing, lustrous, shining, sparkling, spick and span, vivid, whizz), מצוחצח (polished, sleek, smart), נוצץ (brilliant, glistening, smart, sparkle). (various references)

Hungarian

ragyogó (agleam, beamy, blazing, bodacious, bright, brilliant, coruscating, dazzling, effulgent, fulgent, glaring, glistening, glittering, glorious, glowing, gorgeous, incandescent, irradiant, light, lucent, luminescent, luminous, lurid, lustrous, polished, radiant, resplendent, royal, sheeny, shining, splendid, starry, sunny, top-hole), kifényesedett, fénylő (coruscating, glistening, glittering, luminous, lustrous, resplendent, shining), fényes (bright, glorious, glossy, illustrious, lustrous, pompous, refulgent, satiny, sheeny, shining, sleek, sumptuous). (various references)

Indonesian

cerah (bright, sunny). (various references)

Italian

lustro (glory, gloss, glossy, luster, lustre, lustrous, moist, prestige, sheen, shine, shining), lucente (agleam, lucent, shining), brillante (bright, brilliant, diamond, refulgent, refulgently, scintilating, shining, slick, smart, snappy, splendit, starry). (various references)

Korean 

빛나는 (Beamed, Brightened, Gleamed, Glittered, Rayed, Shined, Shinier, Shiniest, Shone). (various references)

Manx

sollys (bright, brilliant, clear, lamp, light, resplendent, shining, transparent), soilsheanagh (beaming, brilliant, glistening, glowing, lit up, luminous, lustrous, radiant, splendid, vivid). (various references)

Pig Latin

inyshay.(various references)

Portuguese

reluzente (polished, sheeny, shining, sparkling, spick and span, splendent), polido (attentive, cleanly cut, courtly, gentle, glossy, mannerly, neat, net, polished, polite, precise, sleek, sleeky, smooth, specular, urbane, well-bred, well-spoken), lustroso (beady, glace, glazed, glazy, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, silken, silky, sleek, sleeky, slick, smooth, spick and span, splendent), cintilante (agleam, brisk, flaring, flashy, lambent, shining, sparkling), brilhante (ablaze, agleam, brilliant, champion, clear, diamond, effulgent, flamboyant, flaming, fulgent, gay, glaring, glowing, lambent, light, lucent, lucid, luculent, luminous, lustrous, orient, resplendent, sheeny, shining, sparkling, splendent, starry, top-hole, vivid). (various references)

Romanian

strãlucitor (ablaze, bright, brilliant, effulgent, flaming, flash, flashing, flashy, fresh, fulgent, gorgeous, irradiant, luminous, luminously, radiant, refulgent, relucent, resplendent, shining, splendid, starry, vivid), senin (azure, broad, calm, clear, cloudless, fair, fine, happy, mild, peace, serene, serenity, tranquil, unclouded, unruffled), lucios (bright, glossy, lustrous, polished, sleek). (various references)

Russian 

яркий (bright, clear, colorable, colorful, colourful, distinct, flare, gay, glaring, glowing, lucid, pictorial, picturesque, plain, psychedelic, showy, sinewy, sunbright, vivid, zippy), солнечный (heliacal, solar, sunny, sunshiny), лоснящийся (glossy, sleek), блестящий (brilliant, glistening, glittery, glitzy, glossy, lambent, luminous, resplendent, sheeny, shining, sparkly, splendent, splendorous). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

svetao (bright, light, lucent, luminous, orient), sunčan (heliacal, sunny), sjajan (beaming, bright, brilliant, effulgent, fulgent, glace, glittering, glossal, glossy, gorgeous, luminous, lustrous, polished, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, shining, spanking, splendent, splendid, splendiferous), uglačan (glace, polished), blistav (agleam, fulgent, glaring, glistening, glittering, luminous, resplendent, shining, sparkling, splendent). (various references)

Spanish

brillante (agleam, alight, bright, brilliant, dashing, diamond, flashing, gay, glaring, glazy, glistening, glossy, glowing, high, lurid, quicksilver, radiant, reflective, scintillant, scintillating, sheeny, shining, sparkling, starry, twinkling). (various references)

Swedish

blank (blank, bright, sleek, slick, smooth, unshaded, white). (various references)

Turkish

parlamış, parlak (aglow, ardent, bright, brightly, brilliant, clear, dazzling, effulgent, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flashily, flashy, fulgent, fulgurant, glace, glittering, glossy, glowing, gorgeous, illuminant, incandescent, irradiant, jazzy, lambent, live, lively, loud, lucent, luminescent, luminous, lustrous, meteoric, oriental, polished, pyrotechnic, pyrotechnical, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, sheeny, shining, sleek, sparkling, splendent, splendid, star, staring, starry, sunny, vivid), eskimiş (dated, decrepit, detrited, effete, moss-grown, obsolescent, old, out, outworn, rusty, stale, superannuated, timeworn, well worn, worm-eaten, worn, worn out). (various references)

Turkmen 

яalpylda duran. (various references)

Ukrainian

сонячний (heliac, heliacal, solar, sunny), відполірований, заяложений (commonplace, ordinary, outworn, platitudinous, ready made, stale, stock, threadbare). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sáng (bright, luminous, shining), bóng (lustrous, polished, shade, shadow, silhouette). (various references)

Welsh

gloyw (bright, clear, glossy). (various references)

tam. (various references)

Fusconaia edgariana, Zonitoides nitidus. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "shiny": sunshiny. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Shiny" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chigny, chinny, eshiny, hiny, sainy, Schily, sciny, shani, sheeny, Shiina, shimy, shindy, Shiney, shint, shion, shiry, shonay, shoney, shony, silny, sinny, siny, sliny, sphiny, stiny, swiny. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: hins, hisn, shin, sinh, yins.

-2 letters: hin, his, ins, shy, sin, syn, yin.

-3 letters: hi, in, is, sh, si.

+1 letter: shindy, shinny, shying.

+2 letters: hayings, hyalins, hymnist, lychnis, shindys, shingly, shinily, shinney, zanyish.

+3 letters: chimneys, chymosin, cushiony, dandyish, ethinyls, hyalines, hygienes, hymnists, hyoscine, hypnosis, nebbishy, ninnyish, nylghais, psyching, scything, shinnery, shinneys, spinachy, sunshiny, synching, syrphian, thionyls, thymines, thymosin, tonishly, varnishy, youngish.

+4 letters: anythings, biphenyls, chymosins, dashingly, diphenyls, donnishly, dysphonia, gushingly, heinously, hemolysin, hendiadys, hesitancy, hoydenish, hyacinths, hygienics, hygienist, hymeniums, hymnaries, hymnodies, hyoscines, hypnotics, hypnotism, hypnotist, hyponoias, knavishly, kyboshing, lychnises, lynchings, lynchpins, mannishly, moonishly, physician, sashaying, shammying, shamoying, shimmying, shinneyed, shinnying, stithying, swinishly, sympathin, symphonic, synthesis, synthetic, syphering, syphoning, syrphians, thymosins, thyroxins, unsightly, unstylish, yachtings.