sparkling

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   present participle and gerund of sparkle

2. 2

   Of an object, reflecting light as if giving off tiny sparks or flashes of light.

   • "Methinks 't were sweet once more to see Our native forest shade, And the wild streamlet leaping free Along the sparkling glade,...
3. 3

   Of a beverage, especially an alcoholic beverage, containing dissolved carbon dioxide…

   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.

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   1. 4

      Brilliant and vivacious.

      • While we know – because the script tells us so – that the people we are watching are in love and in pain and in trouble, they never come across as more than dispensers of sparkling aperçus.
   2. 5

      Act or appearance of something that sparkles

      Act or appearance of something that sparkles; a sparkle; a gleam.

      • Bright are the sparklings that beam from the dew.
   3. 6

      A sparkling wine.

      • Wines like this struggle to stand out on the show circuit, where the judges are more likely to be searching for sparklings designed in the classic Champagne mould.
   4. 7

      Ellipsis of sparkling water (“fizzy drinking water”).

The neighborhood

• synonymcarbonated
• synonymeffervescent
• antonymnoncarbonatedantonym(s) of
• antonymstill
• antonymnoneffervescent