Meaning & use

shiny

adjective·Everyday

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

glossygleamingpolished

Choose a synonym to suit the sentence. Meanings can overlap without being identical.

Words with an opposite meaning

dullmatte

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