gleam

gleam is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as intransitive verb, noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To disgorge filth, as a hawk. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To disgorge filth, as a hawk.
2. noun. A shoot of light; a small stream of light; a beam; a ray; a glimpse.
3. noun. Brightness; splendor.
4. transitive verb. To shoot, or dart, as rays of light; as, at the dawn, light gleams in the east.
5. transitive verb. To shine; to cast light; to glitter.
6. transitive verb. To shoot out (flashes of light, etc.).
7. noun. an appearance of reflected light

   Synonyms: gleaming, glow, lambency

8. noun. a flash of light (especially reflected light)

   Synonyms: gleaming, glimmer

9. verb. appear briefly

   "A terrible thought gleamed in her mind"

10. verb. shine brightly, like a star or a light

    Synonyms: glimmer

11. verb. be shiny, as if wet

    "His eyes were glistening"

    Synonyms: glint, glisten, glitter, shine

Synonyms

gleaming, glow, lambency, glimmer, glint, glisten, glitter, shine

Common word forms

gleams, gleamed, gleamer, gleaming, gleamless

Words from these letters

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