gleam

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of GLEAM

the steady giving off of the form of radiation that makes vision possible <the door opened a crack and let in a gleam of light from the hallway>

Synonyms blaze, flare, fluorescence, glare, gleam, glow, illumination, incandescence, luminescence, radiance, shine

Related Words flash, glimmer, glint, glitter, scintillation, shimmer, sparkle, twinkle; daylight, moonlight, sunlight, sunshine; afterglow, aureole (or aureola), aurora, beam, halo, ray, shaft, streak, stream, sunbeam; glisten, gloss, luster (or lustre), polish, reflection, sheen

Near Antonyms blackness, dark, darkness, dimness, dusk, duskiness, gloom, night, shadow

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