Meaning & use
shiny
Reflecting light brightly because of a smooth, polished, or glossy surface.
See it in a sentence
The mechanic polished the car until its hood was perfectly shiny.
She unwrapped a shiny new coin that had never been circulated.
A note on using this word
Shiny is an everyday, informal word; glossy and lustrous are more common in descriptive or technical writing.
Words with a similar meaning
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Words with an opposite meaning
dullmatte
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