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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shiny \Shin"y\, adjective [Compar. {Shinier}; superl. {Shiniest}.] Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.
Like distant thunder on a shiny day. --Dryden.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
shiny
adjective
1: 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}] [also: {shiniest}, {shinier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
114 Moby Thesaurus words for "shiny": aglow, beaming, beamy, bleached, blushing, bright, bright and sunny, buffed, burning, burnished, candescent, clean, cleanly, coruscating, dainty, dazzling, dirt-free, fair, fastidious, finished, flashing, flashy, flickering, flushing, fresh, fulgent, furbished, glace, glassy, glazed, gleaming, gleamy, glinting, glistening, glittering, glossy, glowing, illuminant, immaculate, incandescent, irradiative, kosher, lacquered, lambent, lamping, light as day, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative, luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lustrous, nonpolluted, of cleanly habits, orient, polished, pure, radiant, ritually pure, rubbed, rutilant, rutilous, satiny, scintillating, sheeny, shellacked, shimmering, shimmery, shined, shining, silken, silky, sleek, slick, smut-free, smutless, sparkling, spotless, stainless, starbright, starlike, starry, streaming, suffused, sunny, sunshiny, sweet, tahar, tubbed, twinkling, unadulterated, unbesmirched, unblemished, unblotted, undefiled, unmuddied, unpolluted, unsmirched, unsmudged, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, varnished, velvety, well-scrubbed, well-washed, white, whitened
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