opalesced
Showed rainbow colors
Opalesced is the past tense of opalesce, meaning to exhibit a play of colors like an opal—that milky, shifting iridescence where hues seem to float and change with the angle of light.
The word usually describes surfaces or substances catching light in a pearly, luminous way: The soap bubble opalesced in the sunlight.
Morning mist opalesced across the lake.
Shone with wavering light
- glimmeredShone with faint light
- gleamedShone with reflected light
- scintillatedEmitted quick flashes
- coruscatedEmitted vivid flashes
prismatic · nacreous · pearlescent · holographic · dichroic · rainbow · spectrum · kaleidoscopic
Whitish and cloudy
- cloudedMade unclear or dim
- semi-transparentPartially permitting light passage
- diaphanousDelicately translucent
- pellucidTransparently clear
filmy · gossamer · veiled · hazy · foggy · misty · frosted · smoky
Emitted steady light
- radiatedEmitted energy outward
- shoneEmitted brightness before
- phosphorescedEmitted stored light energy
- fluorescedEmitted absorbed light
luminescent · phosphorescent · ethereal · milky · diffused · suffused · backlit · moonlit
shimmered
Shone with wavering light
- glimmeredShone with faint light
- gleamedShone with reflected light
- scintillatedEmitted quick flashes
coruscated · prismatic · nacreous · pearlescent · holographic · dichroic · rainbow · spectrum · kaleidoscopic · polychromatic
milky
Whitish and cloudy
- cloudedMade unclear or dim
- semi-transparentPartially permitting light passage
- diaphanousDelicately translucent
pellucid · filmy · gossamer · veiled · hazy · foggy · misty · frosted · smoky · gauzy
glowed
Emitted steady light
- radiatedEmitted energy outward
- shoneEmitted brightness before
- phosphorescedEmitted stored light energy
fluoresced · luminescent · phosphorescent · ethereal · milky · diffused · suffused · backlit · moonlit · lambent
flickered
Shone unsteadily, intermittently
pulsated · trembled · undulated · rippled · shifted · changed · transformed · played · moved · fluttered