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synonyms for burnished

  • blazing
  • brilliant
  • dazzling
  • flashing
  • glistening
  • glittering
  • golden
  • intense
  • luminous
  • radiant
  • shimmering
  • shiny
  • silvery
  • sparkling
  • sunny
  • vivid
  • ablaze
  • aglow
  • alight
  • argent
  • auroral
  • beaming
  • burning
  • coruscating
  • effulgent
  • fulgent
  • fulgid
  • glaring
  • gleaming
  • glossy
  • illuminated
  • illumined
  • incandescent
  • irradiated
  • lambent
  • light
  • lighted
  • limpid
  • lustrous
  • mirrorlike
  • moonlit
  • phosphorescent
  • polished
  • relucent
  • resplendent
  • scintillating
  • sunlit
  • twinkling
  • chestnut
  • copper
  • russet
  • rust
  • tan
  • brownish
  • copper-colored
  • metallic brown
  • reddish-brown
  • reddish-tan
  • bright
  • glistening
  • refined
  • shiny
  • smooth
  • urbane
  • cultivated
  • cavalier
  • courteous
  • courtly
  • couth
  • diplomatic
  • polite
  • politic
  • suave
  • tactful
On this page you'll find 399 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to burnished, such as: blazing, brilliant, dazzling, flashing, glistening, and glittering.

antonyms for burnished

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  • cloudy
  • dark
  • dim
  • dull
  • gloomy
  • black
  • depressed
  • depressing
  • doleful
  • dreary
  • dusky
  • horrible
  • murky
  • normal
  • obscure
  • pale
  • pastel
  • somber
  • stupid
  • threatening
  • typical
  • unaware
  • unhappy
  • unintelligent
  • unpromising
    • dark
    • dull
    • rough
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        How to use burnished in a sentence

        They carried spears that flashed and glittered in the sun, as did their burnished shields and helmets.
        THE DEVIL-TREE OF EL DORADOFRANK AUBREY
        Then again she brushed and brushed, until the ripply mass shone like unto burnished gold.
        MAID SALLYHARRIET A. CHEEVER
        Tik-tok moved by clockwork, and was made all of burnished copper.
        DOROTHY AND THE WIZARD IN OZL. FRANK BAUM
        In places it was wholly metal, smooth and shining like burnished copper.
        THE FIRE PEOPLERAY CUMMINGS
        The helmet, though burnished and adorned with a horse's tail, had the unmistakable outlines of a copper kettle.
        THE LANDLOPERHOLMAN DAY
        Beneath the glow plates in the overhead, his pink scalp gleamed with the soft, burnished shininess of a well-polished apple.
        UNWISE CHILDGORDON RANDALL GARRETT
        The bands may be raised and projecting (Bosnia) or be merely painted on a flat, sometimes burnished, surface.
        THE NEW STONE AGE IN NORTHERN EUROPEJOHN M. TYLER
        Hewn out of the solid rock, a smooth and glistening pavement refracted those noon-day beams like burnished metal.
        SARCHEDONG. J. (GEORGE JOHN) WHYTE-MELVILLE
        Her thick hair of burnished black was piled on top of her head in gracious disorder, and from it swayed a scarlet paper flower.
        CHILDREN OF THE WHIRLWINDLEROY SCOTT
        On the burnished surface of the silver glittered the glow of rose-colored candles, held in candelabra of vermilion.
        THE SWORD OF HONOR, VOLUMES 1 & 2EUGNE SUE
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