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- DictionaryShim·mer/ˈSHimər/
verb
- 1. shine with a soft tremulous light: "the sea shimmered in the sunlight"
noun
- 1. a soft, slightly wavering light: "a pale shimmer of moonlight"
The meaning of SHIMMER is to shine with a soft tremulous or fitful light : glimmer. How to use shimmer in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Shimmer.
Shimmer definition: to shine with or reflect a subdued, tremulous light; gleam faintly.. See examples of SHIMMER used in a sentence.
SHIMMER definition: 1. to shine in such a way that the light seems to shake slightly and quickly: 2. the fact that…. Learn more.
When you shimmer you shine, although sometimes quite weakly. A shimmer is small and sometimes weak, and in danger of going out, but it's there all the same and often beautiful. You know how silk catches the light and shines in lovely ways? That's a shimmer.
SHIMMER meaning: 1. to shine in such a way that the light seems to shake slightly and quickly: 2. the fact that…. Learn more.
1. to shine with or reflect a soft, tremulous light. 2. to appear to quiver in faint light or while reflecting heat waves. n. 3. a soft, tremulous light or gleam. 4. a quivering motion or image as produced by reflecting faint light or heat waves.
2 meanings: 1. to shine with a glistening or tremulous light 2. a faint, glistening, or tremulous light.... Click for more definitions.
verb. shimmered, shimmers. To shine with an unsteady light; glimmer. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. To be reflected as a subdued, flickering light. The moon shimmered on the pond's surface. American Heritage. To form a wavering image, as by reflection from waves of water or heat.
to shine gently and seem to be moving slightly: The trees shimmered in the moonlight. (Definition of shimmer from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Origin of shimmer 1 First recorded before 1100; Middle English schimeren, s(c)hemeren, Old English scimrian; cognate with Dutch schemeren, German schimmern “to glisten”
