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GLOSSY
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Irregular inflected forms: glossier , glossiest
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A photograph that is printed on smooth shiny paper
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("glossy" is a kind of...):
exposure; photo; photograph; pic; picture (a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A magazine printed on good quality paper
Synonyms:
glossy; slick; slick magazine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("glossy" is a kind of...):
mag; magazine (a periodic publication containing pictures and stories and articles of interest to those who purchase it or subscribe to it)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Superficially attractive and stylish; suggesting wealth or expense
Example:
a glossy TV series
Synonyms:
glossy; showy
Classified under:
Similar:
attractive (pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Reflecting light
Example:
shining white enamel
Synonyms:
glistening; glossy; lustrous; sheeny; shining; shiny
Classified under:
Similar:
bright (emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts)
Derivation:
glossiness (the property of being smooth and shiny)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(of paper and fabric and leather) having a surface made smooth and shiny especially by pressing between rollers
Example:
glossy paper
Synonyms:
calendered; glossy
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
glazed; shiny (having a shiny surface or coating)
Derivation:
glossiness (the property of being smooth and shiny)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
Example:
a meretricious argument
Synonyms:
gilded; glossy; meretricious; specious
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
insincere (lacking sincerity)
Context examples:
Beth did look, and turned pale with delight and surprise, for there stood a little cabinet piano, with a letter lying on the glossy lid, directed like a sign board to "Miss Elizabeth March."
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He was a gaunt, sallow young man, with hollow cheeks, and a chin almost as black as Mr. Murdstone's; but there the likeness ended, for his whiskers were shaved off, and his hair, instead of being glossy, was rusty and dry.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I found each wave, instead of the big, smooth glossy mountain it looks from shore or from a vessel's deck, was for all the world like any range of hills on dry land, full of peaks and smooth places and valleys.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Oh, fresh and glossy.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
