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Shinier

Shiny \Shin"y\, a. [Compar. Shinier; superl. Shiniest.] Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.

Like distant thunder on a shiny day.
--Dryden.

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shinier

a. (en-comparativeshiny)

WordNet
shiny
  1. adj. reflecting light; "glistening bodies of swimmers"; "the horse's glossy coat"; "lustrous auburn hair"; "saw the moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet"; "shining white enamel" [syn: glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shining]

  2. having a shiny surface or coating; "glazed fabrics"; "glazed doughnuts" [syn: glazed] [ant: unglazed]

  3. made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow; "bright silver candlesticks"; "a burnished brass knocker"; "she brushed her hair until it fell in lustrous auburn waves"; "rows of shining glasses"; "shiny black patents" [syn: bright, burnished, lustrous, shining]

  4. abounding with sunlight; "a bright sunny day"; "one shining norming"- John Muir; "when it is warm and shiny" [syn: bright, shining, sunshiny, sunny]

  5. [also: shiniest, shinier]

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Usage examples of "shinier".

Enough light bounced off its scales, made shinier by patches of decay and the dried ichor of its blood, that the pallet with Boba Fett on it could be seen several meters away.

She was energetic with a good appetite, a glow to her skin, and her curly hair shinier than ever.

He boosted his first car at fourteen, but his ambitions had always run to bigger, shinier games.

Its white textured boards perhaps a bit shinier with a new coat of paint.

Her own suitcase, newer and shinier, stood waiting on the floor already filled and locked.

The native returned, beckoning, and they scrambled up a wicker corridor to a chamber where an even broader Sopwithian in a shinier robe sat impassive in a lanterned alcove.

Their blood looked purple in the red glow of the emergencies, thicker and shinier than ordinary blood.

All nine of them were in sight, and he now saw the limbs, the head, and the thorax-though the thorax had now been broken into four pieces and the head looked much shinier than it had earlier.

His high-collared red coat seemed shinier than silk satin, and was oddly cut, with tails hanging almost to his knees.

At the mall people are interested only in staying as modern as possible, continually forgetting the past while envisaging a shinier more fabulous future.