Dictionary Entry
scintillate
scintillate is a 11-letter English word with 7 senses as intransitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To emit sparks, or fine igneous particles. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 17 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To emit sparks, or fine igneous particles.
- 2intransitive verb
To sparkle, as the fixed stars.
- 3verb
be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity
"The musical performance sparkled"
"A scintillating conversation"
- 4verb
physics: fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon
"the phosphor fluoresced"
- 5verb
emit or reflect light in a flickering manner
"Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?"
- 6verb
reflect brightly
"Unquarried marble sparkled on the hillside"
- 7verb
give off
"the substance scintillated sparks and flashes"
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