Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun glisten

1 sense of glisten

Sense 1
glitter, glister, glisten, scintillation, sparkle -- (the quality of shining with a bright reflected light)
       => brightness -- (the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb glisten

1 sense of glisten

Sense 1
glitter, glisten, glint, gleam, shine -- (be shiny, as if wet; "His eyes were glistening")
       => look, appear, seem -- (give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect; "She seems to be sleeping"; "This appears to be a very difficult problem"; "This project looks fishy"; "They appeared like people who had not eaten or slept for a long time")