shiny
/ˈʃʌɪni
/adjective (shinier, shiniest)
(Of a smooth surface) reflecting light, typically because very clean or polished: shiny hair shiny black shoes...
- As the sun came and went behind the clouds, shiny surfaces reflected it right across the showground.
- Powered by infrared lasers, the shiny surface reflects and focuses this laser beam into a ring.
- Continue to do this until most of the egg has set, but still retains a soft shiny surface.
Synonyms
glossy, glassy, bright, polished, burnished, gleaming, satiny, sheeny, lustrous, smooth
rare nitid
Derivatives
shinily
- The cube's two halves slot together like an infuriating Christmas cracker puzzle and the four minimally printed CDs sit shinily in separate slots.
- Its stainless-steel panels perforated by a grid of numerous small holes are either shinily opaque or surprisingly transparent, depending on your angle of view.
- It's about the size of four phone boxes knocked through, but it's very new, and shinily neat and bright.
shininess
- It is not only the brightness, garishness, shininess and fine detail of these pictures: the composition, too, was - by the standards of the masters - slapdash.
- Her tear filled eyes glazed over the shininess of the pipe, and then almost instantly, she screamed in rage and threw it down the tunnel.
- Frankly the thought's so scary that I'm now scrabbling around for a shampoo that guarantees me precisely 100% normal shininess and not a single millionth of a percentage either way.