Sparkling

Quick meaning: Sparkling is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of sparkle.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of sparkle.

More Meanings

1. Of an object, reflecting light as if giving off tiny sparks or flashes of light.
2. (figurative) Brilliant and vivacious.
3. Act or appearance of something that sparkles; a sparkle; a gleam.
4. A sparkling wine.
5. Ellipsis of sparkling water (“fizzy drinking water”).
6. Of a beverage, especially an alcoholic beverage, containing dissolved carbon dioxide (either naturally or that has been added) that comes out of solution in the form of many tiny bubbles.

Example Sentences

Bright are the sparklings that beam from the dew.

"Methinks 't were sweet once more to see Our native forest shade, And the wild streamlet leaping free Along the sparkling glade,.

Wines like this struggle to stand out on the show circuit, where the judges are more likely to be searching for sparklings designed in the classic Champagne mould.

While we know – because the script tells us so – that the people we are watching are in love and in pain and in trouble, they never come across as more than dispensers of sparkling aperçus.

Word Forms

• sparklings

Synonyms for sparkling

Depending on context, synonyms include glistening, twinkling, ignescent, fizzy, carbonated, effervescent.

Antonyms for sparkling

Common opposites include noncarbonated, still, flat, noneffervescent.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include scintillating, scintillation, glittering, glistering, fulgid, scintillant.

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