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/ʃiːn/ · adjective
(rare, usually poetic or archaic) Beautiful, good-looking, attractive, fair; bright, radiant; shiny..
Up rose each warrier bold and brave, / Glistening in filed steel and armor sheen.
The doleful Dumps I sing, and tearful Woes, Of Marian teeming with unlawful Throes: The sheenest Lass in Berkshire was she known, Of all that Butter fell to Reading Town: […]
[…] Would'st hear, what dims those eyes so sheen?
Where the fountains glisten sheenest […] (ch. 12).
The woods, and vales were sheen as day, With light from its own living fountain; […]
None other but the chroniclers of so many brawny feasts in the hard-eating country round Phalsburg could do justice to the splendid figure which the roast goose cut in his dish, stuffed as he was with chestnuts and truffles, and glistening with the sheenest gravy.
Out upon the sheen waters of the river that lay grey beneath the starlight crept many shadows, silent and mysterious.
[…] He receiveth blithely, and embraceth sweetly, the loathliest of all, and maketh them seven times sheener than the sun.
Use sheen when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sheen means (rare, usually poetic or archaic) Beautiful, good-looking, attractive, fair; bright, radiant; shiny..
Common synonyms include lustre, shininess, luster.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Up rose each warrier bold and brave, / Glistening in filed steel and armor sheen.
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