Definition for Shimmer:

• A tremulous gleam; glimmer.

Synonyms for Shimmer:

• n.

  •
  • catch the light.
  •
  • radiance,
  • wink,
  • spangle,
  • dazzle.
  •beam (noun)
  • Lasers,
  • laser,
  • Dartle,
  • shoot,
  • streams,
  • RAYS.
  •event (noun)
  • shimmer,
  • play.
  •gleam (noun)
  • phosphorescence,
  • blinking,
  • iridescence,
  • coruscation,
  • spark,
  • diffused light.
  •glisten (noun)
  • study at flash.
  •glitter (noun)
  • dis-plays,
  • dis play,
  • dis-play,
  • dis plays,
  • gaudinesses,
  • showinesses.
  •gloss (noun)
  • sur face,
  • glossinesses,
  • slicknesses,
  • silkinesses,
  • sur faces,
  • sur-face.
  •sheen (noun)
  • patina,
  • shininess,
  • patinas.

• v.

  •blaze (verb)
  • fulgurates,
  • fulgurated,
  • bursted out.
  •flare (verb)
  • firing up,
  • boils over,
  • lost control,
  • burnt up,
  • loses control,
  • losing control,
  • burns up,
  • boiled over.
  •flicker (verb)
  • tremble,
  • wave,
  • waver.
  •glisten (verb)
  • dance,
  • phosphoresce,
  • shimmy.
  •shake (verb)
  • dis-quieted,
  • dis-quiet,
  • concusses,
  • up-sets,
  • up-setting,
  • sets motion,
  • dis composing,
  • dis quieted,
  • dis-compose,
  • succussing,
  • dis quieting,
  • up sets,
  • dis quiet,
  • Commoved,
  • up setting,
  • dis-quieting,
  • dis-quiets,
  • dis composes,
  • set motion,
  • succusses,
  • dis quiets,
  • commoves,
  • succussed,
  • dis compose,
  • dis-composing,
  • dis-composes,
  • up-set,
  • dis composed,
  • dis-composed.
  •shine (verb)
  • be dazzle,
  • gave light,
  • be-dazzled,
  • giving light,
  • be-dazzles,
  • gives light,
  • be-dazzling,
  • emitted light,
  • be dazzling,
  • be dazzles,
  • be-dazzle.
  •twinkle (verb)
  • lights up,
  • lighting up.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • glister,
  • coruscate.
  •
  • scintillate,
  • radiate.
  •flicker
  • glinting,
  • dancing,
  • Danced,
  • Glinted,
  • flickering.

Antonyms for Shimmer:

• n.

  • gleam
    dullness, darkness.

• v.

  • glisten
    dull.
  • Other antonyms:
    gloominess, obscurity, gloom, dusk, shadow, dimness, blackness, dark, shade.

Shimmer Sentence Examples:

• It was a light, glad laugh - the sound of a voice he knew - that seemed to have pierced him as with a rifle - ball; and at the same moment from the green shimmer of foliage in the balcony there stepped into the glare of the hall a young girl with life, and laughter, and a merry carelessness in her face and eyes.

• Again, as in the dim shimmer of the dawn, there struggled out from the wonderful eyes that same pleading look - the look he had seen on its face the morning he had left Derwood Manor - as if she needed help and was appealing to him for sympathy.

Homophones for Shimmer:

• skinner, senior, schooner, seigneur, seasoner, senor, swimwear, senhor, shimmery, snore, somewhere, shnorrer, Samian Ware, schmeer, sinner, sonora, summary, scunner, saimiri, shiner, seminary, sunray, scammer, snorer, seymour, signor, signior, somrai, scenery, schmear, sayonara, seigniory, scanner, simmer, Schnorrer, shmear, signore, sycamore, senora, sneerer, schnorr, snarer, Samaria, sagamore, skimmer, summery, sun-ray, smear, scenario, sumer, signer, summer, shammer, schemer, sumner, samurai, sonar, signora, seignior, seigneury, snare, shnorr, sooner, signory, summer haw, seminar, sneer, samara, swimmer.

Hyponym for Shimmer:

• n.

  • event
    alteration, change, modification.

• v.

  • stative
    glisten, gleam, glitter, shine, glint.
  • weather
    shine, beam.