The meaning of SHIMMER is to shine with a soft tremulous or fitful light : glimmer. How to use shimmer in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Shimmer.

Coloration is generally subdued yet complex; under bright lighting, their feathers shimmer with iridescent brilliance.

SHIMMER definition: to shine with or reflect a subdued, tremulous light; gleam faintly. See examples of shimmer used in a sentence.

to shine with a quivering or unsteady light.

Shimmer is used to transform or "transmute" one item into another item or decraft it. This also affects town NPCs (specifically their sprites), several enemies, and many critters. Transformed …

If something shimmers, it shines with a faint, unsteady light or has an unclear, unsteady appearance. The lights shimmered on the water. [VERB] The trees shimmered in the …

When you shimmer you shine, although sometimes quite weakly. A shimmer is small and sometimes weak, and in danger of going out, but it's there all the same and often beautiful.