twinkle

Nouns

  • (n) a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash sparkling, scintillation,
  • (n) merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance
    • he had a sparkle in his eye
    • there's a perpetual twinkle in his eyes
    sparkle, spark, light,

Verbs

  • (v) gleam or glow intermittently
    • The lights were flashing
    flash, wink, winkle, blink,
  • (v) emit or reflect light in a flickering manner
    • Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?
    winkle, scintillate,

Synonyms

flash wink winkle blink sparkling scintillation scintillate sparkle spark light

Words of close approximity

twinkly
Twinkie twinkly
twinkler