Normal and Shining

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Normal adjective - Being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events.

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Shining is an antonym for normal.

Nearby Words: normalize, norm, normalise, normally, normality

Shining adjective - Giving off or reflecting much light.

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Normal is an antonym for shining in glowing topic.

Nearby Words: shine, shiny, shin, shiner

Inverted with the cover of Virtue's Last Reward, which has Sigma with grey-ish hair and a shining right eye instead of black hair and a normal-looking eye.

Source: Covers Always Lie
When heated in a spectroscope, a meteorite "displayed shining bands unlike any known colours of the normal spectrum".

Source: Fictional Colour
See that elite-looking guard in massive shining armor that dwarfs normal guards' armor?

Source: Lethal Joke Item

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