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Definition: Sparkly |
SparklyAdjective1. Marked by high spirits or excitement; "his fertile effervescent mind"; "scintillating personality"; "sparkling conversation"; "a row of sparkly cheerleaders". 2. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sparkly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
Synonyms: SparklySynonyms: aglitter(p) (adj), bubbling (adj), effervescent (adj), fulgid (adj), glinting (adj), glistering (adj), glittering (adj), glittery (adj), scintillant (adj), scintillating (adj), sparkling (adj), sparkling(a) (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sparkly |
| English words defined with "sparkly": aglitter ♦ bubbling ♦ effervescent ♦ fulgid ♦ glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery ♦ scintillant, scintillating, sparkling. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| "Sparkly Grapes" by Shonna Clark Commentary: "Some gold, sparkly grapes." | "Magic!" by Lynn Cummings Commentary: "Sparkly "Magic" wand trailing stars, ribbons and blue feathers." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| "Sparkly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sparkly" is used about 31 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 31 | 62,296 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
background sparkly | 14 |
sparkly | 4 |
gifs sparkly | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sparkly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | блестящий (brilliant, glistening, glittery, glitzy, glossy, lambent, luminous, resplendent, sheeny, shining, shiny, splendent, splendorous). (various references) | |
Turkmen | яyldyrawuk (glittery). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Sparkly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sparky, s'partly, speckly, Spratlys. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sparkly" (pronounced spÄ"rklē) |
| 5 | -Ä" r k l ē | darkly, starkly. |
| 3 | -k l ē | academically, acoustically, aerobically, aerodynamically, aesthetically, alchemically, algebraically, alphabetically, analytically, anatomically, angelically, apologetically, artistically, astronomically, athletically, authentically, automatically, basically, biologically, biweekly, blankly, briskly, brusquely, categorically, characteristically, chemically, chronologically, classically, cosmetically, democratically, demographically, diplomatically, dogmatically, domestically, dramatically, drastically, ecologically, economically, ecstatically, emphatically, energetically, enthusiastically, erratically, ethnically, euphemistically, fantastically, forensically, frankly, generically, genetically, geometrically, geopolitically, graphically, grotesquely, heroically, hypothetically, hysterically, ideologically, idiotically, ironically, likely, linguistically, logically, logistically, lyrically, mechanically, medically, meekly, metaphorically, microscopically, musically, newsweekly, numerically, obliquely, optically, organically, paradoxically, pathologically, phonetically, physiologically, poetically, practically, prickly, prolifically, psychologically, publically, publicly, quickly, radically, realistically, rhetorically, rhythmically, sarcastically, sickly, sleekly, slickly, specifically, sporadically, stoically, strategically, stylistically, symmetrically, synthetically, systematically, systemically, terrifically, thematically, theologically, thickly, tragically, typically, uncharacteristically, undiplomatically, uniquely, unlikely, unrealistically, vertically, volcanically, weakly, weekly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-k-l-p-r-s-y" | |
-1 letter: sparky. | |
-2 letters: aryls, kyars, larks, larky, palsy, parks, plays, prays, raspy, sarky, spark, splay, spray. | |
-3 letters: alky, alps, arks, aryl, kays, kyar, laky, laps, lark, lars, lays, pals, paly, park, pars, pays, play, pray, pyas, raps, rasp, rays, ryas, salp, sark, slap, slay, spar, spay, spry, yaks, yaps. | |
-4 letters: alp, als, ark, ars, ask. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-k-l-p-r-s-y" | |
+1 letter: sparkily. | |
+2 letters: kalyptras. | |
+3 letters: playmakers, prankishly. | |
+4 letters: karyolymphs. | |
+5 letters: keratoplasty. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Digital Art 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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