scintillant

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪntɪlənt/

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scintillant (comparative more scintillant, superlative most scintillant)

1. That scintillates.
   • 1950, Jack Vance, Dying Earth:

     The father said with patience, "I will bestow on you my fine white horse, my Expansible Egg for your shelter, my Scintillant Dagger to illuminate the night […]

   • 1957, Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin:

     It had suddenly began to snow, though the sky was pure platinum, and the slow scintillant downcome got reflected in the silent looking glass.

• IPA^(key): /sɛ̃.ti.jɑ̃/

scintillant

1. present participle of scintiller

scintillant (feminine scintillante, masculine plural scintillants, feminine plural scintillantes)

1. scintillating

• “scintillant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

scintillant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of scintillō