sparkleverb [ I ]
uk/ˈspɑː.kəl/us/ˈspɑːr.kəl/to shine brightly with a lot of small points of light:
The snow/sea sparkled in the sunlight.
If a person or performance sparkles, they are energetic, interesting, and exciting:
Alice is shy and quiet at parties, but her sister really sparkles!
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Giving out light
- alight
- blink
- brighten
- burn
- burnish
- cast
- catch
- dazzle
- flicker
- gild
- glance
- glitter
- glow
- illuminate
- light
- redshift
- reflected ray
- sparkly
- strobe
- UV
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Exciting and interesting
sparklenoun [ U ]
uk/ˈspɑː.kəl/us/ˈspɑːr.kəl/bright shine:
The radiant smile and the sparkle in her blue eyes were the clear signs of a woman still deeply in love.
energy and interest:
Their latest performance of My Fair Lady really lacked sparkle.
The sparkle went out of/left her (= she became unhappy) after her husband died.
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Quantities & units of light
- aureole
- beam
- blip
- bright
- flash
- glare
- glint
- halo
- lustre
- lux
- pencil
- pinprick
- point
- ray
- shaft
- sheen
- shimmer
- shine
- sunbeam
- twinkle
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Excitement, interest, energy and enthusiasm