sparkling

Meanings

Plural: sparklings

Noun

• a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash
• Act or appearance of something that sparkles; a sparkle; a gleam.
• A sparkling wine.
• Ellipsis of sparkling water (“fizzy drinking water”).

Verb

• reflect brightly
• be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity
• emit or produce sparks
• become bubbly or frothy or foaming
  • "Sparkling water"
• present participle and gerund of sparkle

Adjective Satellite

• shining with brilliant points of light like stars
  • "sparkling snow"
  • "sparkling eyes"

Adjective

• used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide
  • "sparkling wines"
  • "sparkling water"

Adj

• Of an object, reflecting light as if giving off tiny sparks or flashes of light.
• Of a beverage, especially an alcoholic beverage, containing dissolved carbon dioxide (either naturally or that has been added) that comes out of solution in the form of many tiny bubbles.
• Brilliant and vivacious.

Synonyms

carbonated, coruscate, effervesce, effervescent, fizz, fizzy, foam, form bubbles, froth, glistening, scintillate, scintillation, spark, sparkle, twinkle, twinkling

Antonyms

flat, noncarbonated, noneffervescent, still

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