Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to glitter
Participle: glittered
Gerund: glittering
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | glitter |
| you | glitter |
| he;she;it | glitters |
| we | glitter |
| you | glitter |
| they | glitter |
Perfect
| I | have glittered |
| you | have glittered |
| he;she;it | has glittered |
| we | have glittered |
| you | have glittered |
| they | have glittered |
Past
| I | glittered |
| you | glittered |
| he;she;it | glittered |
| we | glittered |
| you | glittered |
| they | glittered |
Pluperfect
| I | had glittered |
| you | had glittered |
| he;she;it | had glittered |
| we | had glittered |
| you | had glittered |
| they | had glittered |
Future
| I | will glitter |
| you | will glitter |
| he;she;it | will glitter |
| we | will glitter |
| you | will glitter |
| they | will glitter |
Future Perfect
| I | will have glittered |
| you | will have glittered |
| he;she;it | will have glittered |
| we | will have glittered |
| you | will have glittered |
| they | will have glittered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | glitter |
| you | glitter |
| he;she;it | glitter |
| we | glitter |
| you | glitter |
| they | glitter |
Perfect
| I | have glittered |
| you | have glittered |
| he;she;it | have glittered |
| we | have glittered |
| you | have glittered |
| they | have glittered |
Imperfect
| I | glittered |
| you | glittered |
| he;she;it | glittered |
| we | glittered |
| you | glittered |
| they | glittered |
Pluperfect
| I | had glittered |
| you | had glittered |
| he;she;it | had glittered |
| we | had glittered |
| you | had glittered |
| they | had glittered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would glitter |
| you | would glitter |
| he;she;it | would glitter |
| we | would glitter |
| you | would glitter |
| they | would glitter |
Perfect
| I | would have glittered |
| you | would have glittered |
| he;she;it | would have glittered |
| we | would have glittered |
| you | would have glittered |
| they | would have glittered |
Imperative
| you | glitter |
| we | Let's glitter |
| you | glitter |
Verbs conjugated like 'glitter'
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 'glitter'
clitter,
flitter,
glister,
glitten,
litter,
beglitter,
belitter,
bitter,
blatter,
blister,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to reflect light
- coruscate, flash, gleam, glisten, luster, sheen, shimmer, shine, sparkle
- sparkle
- shimmer, flash, gleam, sheen, twinkling, brilliancy
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1300, from O.N.
glitra "to glitter," from
glit "brightness," from P.Gmc.
*glit- "shining, bright" (cf. O.E.
glitenian "to glitter," O.H.G.
glizzan, Ger.
glitzern, Goth.
glitmunjan), from PIE
*ghleid- (cf. Gk.
khlidon, khlidos "ornament"), from base
*ghlei- "to shine, glitter."
Glitter rock is from 1972;
glitterati (playing on
literati) first attested 1956.
2. From Middle English gliteren, from Old Norse glitra, from Proto-Germanic *glitrōną (“to glitter”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley-. See: Proto-Germanic '
*glitrōną'.
Sample Sentences
-
[...] on every side there are the boughs, and trunks, and stumps of trees, in every possible stage of decay, decomposition, and neglect. Now you emerge for a few brief minutes on an open country, glittering with some bright lake or pool, broad as many an English river, but so small here that it scarcely has a name; now catch hasty glimpses of a distant town, with its clean white houses and their cool [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
-
Again across Broadway, and so—passing from the many-coloured crowd and glittering shops—into another long main street, the Bowery. A railroad yonder, see, where two stout horses trot along, drawing a score or two of people and a great wooden ark, with ease. The stores are [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
-
[...] giant reared aloft two withered arms, and seemed to call down curses on his foes. Sometimes, at night, the way wound through some lonely gorge, like a mountain pass in Scotland, shining and coldly glittering in the light of the moon, and so closed in by high steep hills all round, that there seemed to be no egress save through the narrower path by which we had come, until one rugged hill-side seemed to [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
-
[...] this beautiful place: the fairest among the fair and lovely Highlands of the North River: shut in by deep green heights and ruined forts, and looking down upon the distant town of Newburgh, along a glittering path of sunlit water, with here and there a skiff, whose white sail often bends on some new tack as sudden flaws of wind come down upon her from the gullies in the hills: hemmed in, besides, all [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
-
She was one of the blackest of her race; and her round shining eyes, glittering as glass beads, moved with quick and restless glances over everything in the room. Her mouth, half open with astonishment at the wonders of the new Mas’r's parlor, displayed a white and brilliant [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
-
[...] first word of kindness the child had ever heard in her life; and the sweet tone and manner struck strangely on the wild, rude heart, and a sparkle of something like a tear shone in the keen, round, glittering eye; but it was followed by the short laugh and habitual grin. No ! the ear that has never heard anything but abuse is strangely incredulous of anything so heavenly as kindness; and Topsy only [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
-
[...] child in the establishment at her heels, open-mouthed with admiration and wonder,—not excepting Miss Eva, who appeared to be fascinated by her wild diablerie, as a dove is sometimes charmed by a glittering serpent. Miss Ophelia was uneasy that Eva should fancy Topsy's society so much, and implored St. Clare to forbid it.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
-
Topsy came up; her round, hard eyes glittering and blinking with a mixture of apprehensiveness and their usual odd drollery.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
-
George smiled sadly, and made no answer. Eliza turned to the glass, and the scissors glittered as one long lock after another was detached from her head.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
-
Cassy kept her glittering eyes fixed on Legree, as she spoke, and he stared at her like a man in the nightmare, till, when she finished by laying her hand, icy cold, on his, he sprung back, with an oath.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)