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1. Animated and brilliantly clever or witty
   - scintillating, sparkling
    
2. Having brief brilliant points or flashes of light
   - aglitter [literary], coruscant [literary], fulgid [literary], glinting, glistering [archaic], glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly
    
3. Marked by harshly abusive criticism
   "his coruscating remarks about silly lady novelists";
   - scathing, vituperative

1. Reflect brightly
   "Unquarried marble coruscated on the hillside";
   - sparkle, scintillate, glister
    
2. Be lively, brilliant or exhibit virtuosity
   "his playing coruscated throughout the concert hall";
   - sparkle, scintillate, glister

See also: bright, critical, intelligent

Type of: be, reflect, shine

Encyclopedia: Coruscating