MEANING
To emit or reflect a faint, unsteady light.
Use it for
Weak night light, obscured reflections, and barely visible brightness.Keep light present at the edge of visibility.
Words that belong together
- stars glimmer
- glimmer through mist
- faint glimmer
On the page
A few stars glimmered through the thin cloud.
The stream glimmered at the bottom of the hollow.
Wet leaves glimmered whenever the moon escaped the clouds.
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Word forms
- Base
- glimmer / glimmers
- Past tense
- glimmered
- Past participle
- glimmered
- Present participle
- glimmering
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- glimmer / glimmers
- Present continuous
- am/is/are glimmering
- Present perfect
- have/has glimmered
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been glimmering
- Past
- glimmered
- Past continuous
- was/were glimmering
- Past perfect
- had glimmered
- Past perfect continuous
- had been glimmering
- Future
- will glimmer / glimmers
- Future continuous
- will be glimmering
- Future perfect
- will have glimmered
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been glimmering
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: environment. Weaker than a bright gleam; also a noun, with a figurative sense of a faint sign of something. Verb [base, third-person, past, past participle, -ing]: glimmer, glimmers, glimmered, glimmered, glimmering.
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