Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to glimmer
Participle: glimmered
Gerund: glimmering
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | glimmer |
| you | glimmer |
| he;she;it | glimmers |
| we | glimmer |
| you | glimmer |
| they | glimmer |
Perfect
| I | have glimmered |
| you | have glimmered |
| he;she;it | has glimmered |
| we | have glimmered |
| you | have glimmered |
| they | have glimmered |
Past
| I | glimmered |
| you | glimmered |
| he;she;it | glimmered |
| we | glimmered |
| you | glimmered |
| they | glimmered |
Pluperfect
| I | had glimmered |
| you | had glimmered |
| he;she;it | had glimmered |
| we | had glimmered |
| you | had glimmered |
| they | had glimmered |
Future
| I | will glimmer |
| you | will glimmer |
| he;she;it | will glimmer |
| we | will glimmer |
| you | will glimmer |
| they | will glimmer |
Future Perfect
| I | will have glimmered |
| you | will have glimmered |
| he;she;it | will have glimmered |
| we | will have glimmered |
| you | will have glimmered |
| they | will have glimmered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | glimmer |
| you | glimmer |
| he;she;it | glimmer |
| we | glimmer |
| you | glimmer |
| they | glimmer |
Perfect
| I | have glimmered |
| you | have glimmered |
| he;she;it | have glimmered |
| we | have glimmered |
| you | have glimmered |
| they | have glimmered |
Imperfect
| I | glimmered |
| you | glimmered |
| he;she;it | glimmered |
| we | glimmered |
| you | glimmered |
| they | glimmered |
Pluperfect
| I | had glimmered |
| you | had glimmered |
| he;she;it | had glimmered |
| we | had glimmered |
| you | had glimmered |
| they | had glimmered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would glimmer |
| you | would glimmer |
| he;she;it | would glimmer |
| we | would glimmer |
| you | would glimmer |
| they | would glimmer |
Perfect
| I | would have glimmered |
| you | would have glimmered |
| he;she;it | would have glimmered |
| we | would have glimmered |
| you | would have glimmered |
| they | would have glimmered |
Imperative
| you | glimmer |
| we | Let's glimmer |
| you | glimmer |
Verbs conjugated like 'glimmer'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'glimmer'
climber,
glister,
glitter,
limber,
mimmer,
shimmer,
simmer,
skimmer,
beglammer,
blinder,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English glimeren, glemeren (“to glimmer”), equivalent to glim (“to shine”) + -er (frequentative suffix). Cognate with German Low German glimmern (“to glimmer”), German glimmern (“to glimmer”), Danish glimre (“to glimmer”), Swedish glimra (“to glimmer”). Doublet of glimpse. Sense 5 was coined in the 2020s in analogy to trigger. See: German, old spelling '
glimmern', Danish '
glimre', Swedish '
glimra'.
Verbs referencing "glimmer"
Icelandic
glíma.
Sample Sentences
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[...] buoys, or small balloons, hoisted by cords to poles, and dangling there, announce, as you may see by looking up, ‘OYSTERS IN EVERY STYLE. ’ They tempt the hungry most at night, for then dull candles glimmering inside, illuminate these dainty words, and make the mouths of idlers water, as they read and linger.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] ever associate itself in my mind with the crowd of affectionate remembrances that now cluster about it. There are those in this city who would brighten, to me, the darkest winter-day that ever glimmered and went out in Lapland; and before whose presence even Home grew dim, when they and I exchanged that painful word which mingles with our every thought and deed; which haunts our cradle-heads in [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] light upon the rock at Holyhead, and praising it for its brightness and its friendly warning, and lauding it, in short, above all other signal lights that ever were displayed, until it once more glimmered faintly in the distance, far behind us.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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The day after the letter arrived in New Orleans, Susan and Emmeline were attached, and sent to the depot to await a general auction on the following morning; and as they glimmer faintly upon us in the moonlight which steals through the grated window, we may listen to their conversation. Both are weeping, but each quietly, that the other may not hear.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Legree stopped. He would have been ashamed to tell of it, but large drops of sweat stood on his forehead, his heart beat heavy and thick with fear; he even thought he saw something white rising and glimmering in the gloom before him, and shuddered to think what if the form of his dead mother should suddenly appear to him.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)