Word Study
shiny
CIDE DICTIONARY
shiny, a.
Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded. [1913 Webster]
"Like distant thunder on a shiny day." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
shiny, adj. (shinier, shiniest)
1 having a shine; glistening; polished; bright.
2 (of clothing, esp. the seat of trousers etc.) having the nap worn off.
1 having a shine; glistening; polished; bright.
2 (of clothing, esp. the seat of trousers etc.) having the nap worn off.
Derivative
shinily adv. shininess n.
Etymology
SHINE
THESAURUS
shiny
aglow, beaming, beamy, bleached, blushing, bright, bright and sunny, buffed, burning, burnished, candescent, clean, cleanly, coruscating, dainty, dazzling, dirt-free, fair, fastidious, finished, flashing, flashy, flickering, flushing, fresh, fulgent, furbished, glace, glassy, glazed, gleaming, gleamy, glinting, glistening, glittering, glossy, glowing, illuminant, immaculate, incandescent, irradiative, kosher, lacquered, lambent, lamping, light as day, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative, luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lustrous, nonpolluted, of cleanly habits, orient, polished, pure, radiant, ritually pure, rubbed, rutilant, rutilous, satiny, scintillating, sheeny, shellacked, shimmering, shimmery, shined, shining, silken, silky, sleek, slick, smut-free, smutless, sparkling, spotless, stainless, starbright, starlike, starry, streaming, suffused, sunny, sunshiny, sweet, tahar, tubbed, twinkling, unadulterated, unbesmirched, unblemished, unblotted, undefiled, unmuddied, unpolluted, unsmirched, unsmudged, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, varnished, velvety, well-scrubbed, well-washed, white, whitenedROGET THESAURUS
shiny
Light
N light, ray, beam, stream, gleam, streak, pencil, sunbeam, moonbeam, aurora, day, sunshine, light of day, light of heaven, moonlight, starlight, sunlight, daylight, broad daylight, noontide light, noontide, noonday, noonday sun, glow, glimmering, glint, play of light, flood of light, phosphorescence, lambent flame, flush, halo, glory, nimbus, aureola, spark, scintilla, facula, sparkling, emication, scintillation, flash, blaze, coruscation, fulguration, flame, lightning, levin, ignis fatuus, luster, sheen, shimmer, reflexion, reflection, gloss, tinsel, spangle, brightness, brilliancy, splendor, effulgence, refulgence, fulgor, fulgidity, dazzlement, resplendence, transplendency, luminousness, luminosity, lucidity, renitency, nitency, radiance, radiation, irradiation, illumination, actinic rays, actinism, Roentgen-ray, Xray, photography, heliography, photometer, optics, photology, photometry, dioptrics, catoptrics, chiaroscuro, clairobscur, clear obscure, breadth, light and shade, black and white, tonality, reflection, refraction, dispersion, refractivity, shining, luminous, luminiferous, lucid, lucent, luculent, lucific, luciferous, light, lightsome, bright, vivid, splendent, nitid, lustrous, shiny, beamy, scintillant, radiant, lambent, sheen, sheeny, glossy, burnished, glassy, sunny, orient, meridian, noonday, tide, cloudless, clear, unclouded, unobscured, gairish, garish, resplendent, transplendent, refulgent, effulgent, fulgid, fulgent, relucent, splendid, blazing, in a blaze, ablaze, rutilant, meteoric, phosphorescent, aglow, bright as silver, light as day, bright as day, light as noonday, bright as noonday, bright as the sun at noonday, actinic, photogenic, graphic, heliographic, heliophagous, a day for gods to stoop and men to soar, dark with excessive bright.For further exploring for "shiny" in Webster Dictionary Online