Glimpse

Quick meaning: Glimpse is a verb meaning To see or view (someone, or something tangible) briefly and incompletely.

Meaning

To see or view (someone, or something tangible) briefly and incompletely.

More Meanings

1. To perceive (something intangible) briefly and incompletely.
2. Chiefly followed by at or upon: to look at briefly and incompletely; to glance.
3. To shine with a faint, unsteady light; to glimmer, to shimmer.
4. To appear or start to appear, especially faintly or unclearly; to dawn.
5. Sometimes followed by out: to provide a brief and incomplete look.
6. Chiefly followed by of: a brief and incomplete look.
7. (archaic) A brief, sudden flash of light; a glimmer.

Example Sentences

I have only begun to glimpse the magnitude of the problem.

I seem to glimpse something of this familiar weakness in Mr. [Gilbert] White.

What memories? / The pure love thoughts and who may know / Thou glimpsest from the long ago?

A hope that, glimpsed, must fade; / A form, illusion made, / That, vanishing, shall come no more again!

Word Forms

• glimpses
• glimpsing
• glimpsed
• glimpsest
• glimpsedst
• glimpseth
• glinse
• glimse

Synonyms for glimpse

Depending on context, synonyms include glitter, coruscate, flash, gleam, glisten, luster.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include glance, glimmer, blink, gleam, flash, peek.

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