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Sparkling with repeated flashes of light, especially as light shifts across a surface.
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- scintillant light
- scintillant stars
- a scintillant surface
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Scintillant ice caught the first color of dawn.
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A literary adjective for light that flashes or twinkles; it is more elevated than sparkling.
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