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# sparkly

«sparkly» in Mova's school dictionary: **shining with lots of tiny flashes of light, like glitter…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (sparkly, sparklier, sparkliest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Sparkly means shining with lots of tiny flashes of light, like glitter, sequins, frost or diamonds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sparkly/#m1)

2) (informal) Sparkly can also mean lively, bright and full of fun: a sparkly personality. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sparkly/#m2)

3) (informal) Sparkly drinks are fizzy ones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sparkly/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life children use it for clothes, shoes, decorations and craft materials. In stories it makes descriptions bright and magical. Phrases: "sparkly dress", "sparkly shoes", "sparkly eyes".

### examples

- She wore a sparkly dress to the party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sparkly/#x1)
- We made sparkly Christmas cards with glitter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sparkly/#x2)
- The snow was sparkly in the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sparkly/#x3)
- My little sister loves sparkly shoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sparkly/#x4)
- The fairy had a sparkly wand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sparkly/#x5)
- He has sparkly eyes when he laughs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sparkly/#x6)
- The frost made the grass look sparkly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sparkly/#x7)

### note

Informal word; more formal: sparkling, glittering. Comparative: sparklier, sparkliest. Glitter is bad for the environment because it is tiny plastic; some schools now use eco-glitter.

### In the corpora

- [On Romilly's court day she wears her sparkly shoes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sparkly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sparkly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.