shiny

Meaning

Adj

1. Reflecting light.
2. Emitting light.
3. (colloquial) Excellent; remarkable.
4. (obsolete) Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.

Noun

1. (informal) Anything shiny; a trinket.
2. (slang) Contraction of disparaging term "shiny arses", originating during World War Two, to describe a desk worker.https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mAdUqLrKw4YC&pg=PA1717

Synonyms

bright

glossy

shining

brilliant

polished

lustrous

shine

gleaming

glittering

sleek

burnished

glowing

sparkling

smooth

dazzling

glistening

radiant

varnished

sheeny

splendid

luminous

glazed

lucent

well-polished

bald

clear

delicate

flashing

luster

refulgent

shimmery

silky

soft

splendent

vivid

worn

lightning

lovely

glittery

luminescent

glare

photic

glamorous

magnificent

oily

phosphorescent

photogenic

fulgid

pure

quartz

fair

waxy

resplendant

fabulous

white

excellent

effulgent

ablaze

silvery

clean

slippery

beautiful

clinquant

spangly

alight

glistering

aglow

spotless

stilted

sunshiny

superb

unblemished

uncloudy

agleam

gloss

grand

grandiose

illuminated

incandescent

lambent

light

light-emitting

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈʃaɪ.ni/

Etymology

From shine + -y.