Pronunciation Verb
- present participle of scintillate#English|scintillate.
scintillating
- That scintillates with brief flashes of light; sparkling.
- 1994, Edward St Aubyn, Bad News, Picador 2006, page 147:
- On the scintillating water yellow and blue boats bobbed up and down.
- 2012 October 13, quoting Nguyen Chi Thien, “Nguyen Chi Thien: Nguyen Chi Thien, a Vietnamese poet, died on October 2nd, aged 73”, in The Economist[https://web.archive.org/web/20121013085955/http://www.economist.com/node/21564511], archived from the original ↗ on 13 October 2012:
- They sank me into the ocean / Wishing me to remain in the depths. / I became a deep sea diver / And came up covered with scintillating pearls.
- 1994, Edward St Aubyn, Bad News, Picador 2006, page 147:
- Brilliantly or impressively clever, exciting, amusing or witty.
- 1864, Edgar Allen Poe, The Literati of New York - No. II - Anna Cora Mowatt:
- Her sketches and tales may be said to be cleverly written. They are lively, easy, conventional, scintillating with a species of sarcastic wit, which might be termed good were it in any respect original.
- 1864, Edgar Allen Poe, The Literati of New York - No. II - Anna Cora Mowatt:
- Russian: искря́щийся
- Russian: искромётный
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