Shine

Quick meaning: Shine is a verb meaning (intransitive, copulative) To emit or reflect light so as to glow.

Meaning

(intransitive, copulative) To emit or reflect light so as to glow.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, copulative) To reflect light.
2. (intransitive, copulative) To distinguish oneself; to excel.
3. (intransitive, copulative) To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
4. (intransitive, copulative) To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
5. (intransitive, copulative) To be immediately apparent.
6. (transitive) To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
7. (transitive) To cause to shine, as a light or by reflected light.

Example Sentences

So proud she shyned in her Princely state.

Once brightest shined this child of heat and air.

I can take the heat, baby, best believe That's the moment I shine

My nephew tried other sports before deciding on football, which he shone at right away, quickly becoming the star of his school team.

Word Forms

• shines
• shining
• shined

Synonyms for shine

Depending on context, synonyms include beam, beshine, gleam, glow, illuminate, illumine.

Antonyms for shine

Common opposites include adumbrate, darken, obscure, overshadow, shade, shadow.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include refulgency, refulgence, effulgence, glow, radiance, glisten.

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