glitter — OET

glitter

verb

silver and crystal glittered in the candlelight:

shine, sparkle, twinkle, glint, gleam, shimmer, glimmer, flicker, blink, wink, catch the light, flash, spangle;

literary glister;

rare scintillate, coruscate, fulgurate, effulge, luminesce, incandesce, phosphoresce.

noun

1 the glitter of sunlight on the water:

sparkle, twinkle, glint, gleam, shimmer, glimmer, flicker, blink, flash;

brightness, brilliance, light, luminescence, phosphorescence, luminosity;

rare lambency, scintillation, coruscation, fulguration, effulgence.

2 the glitter of show business:

glamour, excitement, thrills, attractions, appeal;

showiness, dazzle, tinsel;

informal razzle-dazzle, razzmatazz, glitz, glitziness, ritziness, pizzazz, flashiness.

glitter Oxford Dictionary of English