Need another word that means the same as “sparkling”? Find 12 synonyms and 30 related words for “sparkling” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Sparkling” are: effervescent, fizzy, carbonated, aerated, gassy, bubbly, bubbling, fizzing, foaming, frothy, scintillation, twinkle
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “sparkling” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| scintillation | The twinkling of the stars caused when changes in the density of the earth’s atmosphere produce uneven refraction of starlight. Scintillations of diamond hard light. |
| twinkle | A light which appears continually to grow brighter and fainter. There s a perpetual twinkle in his eyes. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “sparkling” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| aerated | Agitated, angry, or overexcited. Don t get so aerated. |
| bubbling | Containing bubbles or making a bubbling sound. Flutes full of bubbling champagne. |
| bubbly | Containing bubbles. A bright and bubbly personality. |
| carbonated | Having carbonation especially artificially carbonated. |
| effervescent | (of a liquid) giving off bubbles. His fertile effervescent mind. |
| fizzing | Hissing and bubbling. |
| fizzy | (of a drink) containing bubbles of gas; effervescent. Fizzy new wave pop. |
| foaming | Emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation. Pints of foaming bitter. |
| frothy | Light and entertaining but of little substance. Lots of frothy interviews. |
| gassy | Suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal. A long and gassy book. |
| beam | Express with a beaming face or smile. She was beaming with joy. |
| blink | Keep back by blinking. I blinked in astonishment. |
| bright | With brightness. A bright moment in history. |
| finery | Expensive or ostentatious clothes or decoration. Officers in their blue gold and scarlet finery. |
| fizz | The quality of being fizzy effervescence. She saw I had lost some of my fizz. |
| flicker | (of an emotion) be felt or shown briefly or faintly. Amusement flickered briefly in his eyes. |
| flickering | Shining unsteadily. The flickering flames cast long shadows. |
| froth | Make froth or foam and become bubbly. Leave the yeast until there is a good head of froth. |
| glimmer | Shine faintly with a wavering light. He saw a faint glimmer of light from her window. |
| glint | A momentary flash of light. Her glasses glinted in the firelight. |
| glisten | Be shiny, as if wet. There was a glisten of perspiration across her top lip. |
| glistening | Shining with a sparkling light. Glistening bodies of swimmers. |
| glitter | The occurrence of a small flash or spark. The scathing glitter in his eyes. |
| glow | Give out steady light without flame. Make the people s hearts glow. |
| grin | Express with a broad smile. My word grinned the delighted man. |
| jewel | A precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry. Jeweled dresses. |
| lustrous | Having lustre; shining. Large lustrous eyes. |
| moment | A quantity that expresses the average or expected value of the first second third or fourth power of the deviation of each component of a frequency distribution from a given value typically mean or zero The first moment is the mean the second moment the variance the third moment the skew and the fourth moment the kurtosis. She is studying at the moment. |
| polish | Improve or perfect by pruning or polishing. They performed with great polish. |
| rekindle | Revive (something lost or lapsed. He tried to rekindle their friendship. |
| shine | Make a surface shine. My hair has lost its shine. |
| shining | Marked by exceptional merit. He has set a shining example with his model behaviour. |
| shiny | Having a shiny surface or coating. Shiny black patents. |
| spark | Emit sparks of fire or electricity. A spark of decency. |
| sparkle | Be vivacious and witty. Her earrings sparkled as she turned her head. |
| tinder | Dry, flammable material, such as wood or paper, used for lighting a fire. They slashed down the undergrowth for tinder. |
| trigger | Release or pull the trigger on. An allergy can be triggered by stress or overwork. |
| twinkle | Smile so that one’s eyes sparkle. The lights twinkled in the distance. |
| twinkling | Shining with a gleam that changes from bright to faint. Twinkling eyes happy smiles. |
| wink | Signal by winking. The diamond on her finger winked in the moonlight. |
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