Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Animated, brilliant, or highly skilled.
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- verb Present participle of
scintillate . - adjective That
scintillates with brief flashes of light;sparkling . - adjective Brilliantly clever, amusing or
witty .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective brilliantly clever
- adjective having brief brilliant points or flashes of light
- adjective marked by high spirits or excitement
Etymologies
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Examples
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I overdid it, she thought in terror, as she recalled her scintillating remarks and elaborate manner.
The Californians Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902
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Pointe's performances have been described as scintillating and legendary, and she spent a few minutes with us to give us the lowdown on what to expect.
Long Island Press 2009
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What a "scintillating" speech the new leader made, according to the Mirror.
Ed Miliband is ahead of the pack while pundits are stuck in Gridlock Gulch Peter Preston 2010
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The Good Foot, LondonAn all-new night of all-old jams, The Good Foot is a funk and rare groove shakedown playing the kind of scintillating sonics that are just as much fun to scratch your beard to in a knowledgable muso way as they are to cut some serious rug to.
Clubs picks of the week Patric Baird 2010
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McChesney called it "scintillating" as he build a "mountain (ous)" historical record on what no one had ever written.
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McChesney called it "scintillating" as he build a "mountain (ous)" historical record on what no one had ever written.
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And -- and I think that was the sense that -- that a lot of people of my age had about the White House, you know, the best and the brightest, that it was a place, it was an office that demanded a kind of scintillating intellect.
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Bafana Bafana national soccer team would deliver a "scintillating" performance in their World Cup qualifier against Congo on Saturday.
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This time it was McAnuff and Jimmy Kebe who joined forces to torment the City defence in a first half display rightly described by manager Brian McDermott as 'scintillating'.
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There was no doubting the superior class that the visitors had to offer - "scintillating",
milosrdenstvi commented on the word scintillating
"To return to this scintillating topic of conversation..."
November 18, 2009
fbharjo commented on the word scintillating
scintillating early!
May 5, 2011