Word Meanings - GLASSY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Made of glass; vitreous; as, a glassy substance. Bacon. 2. Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a glassy surface; the glassy deep. 3. Dull; wanting life or fire; lackluster;

Additional info about word: GLASSY

1. Made of glass; vitreous; as, a glassy substance. Bacon. 2. Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a glassy surface; the glassy deep. 3. Dull; wanting life or fire; lackluster; -- said of the eyes. "In his glassy eye." Byron. Glassy feldspar , a variety of orthoclase; sanidine.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GLASSY)

• Glabrous
• Smooth
• polished
• bald
• shiny
• sleek
• glacial
• glassy
• Slippery
• lubricated
• insecure
• perilous
• unsafe
• unstable
• shifty
• elusive
• shuffling
• unprincipled
• deceptive
• evasive
• untrustworthy
• uncertain

Related words: (words related to GLASSY)

• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• PERILOUS
  1. Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking. Infamous hills, and sandy, perilous wilds. Milton. 2. Daring; reckless; dangerous. Latimer. For I am perilous with knife in hand. Chaucer.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• GLACIALIST
  One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers.
• SMOOTH
  1. The act of making smooth; a stroke which smooths. Thackeray. 2. That which is smooth; the smooth part of anything. "The smooth of his neck." Gen. xxvii. 16.
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• SMOOTH-CHINNED
  Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• ELUSIVE
  Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious. Elusive of the bridal day, she gives Fond hopes to all, and all with hopes deceives. Pope. -- E*lu"sive*ly, adv. -- E*lu"sive*ness, n.
• SMOOTHLY
  In a smooth manner.
• GLABROUS
  Smooth; having a surface without hairs or any unevenness.
• POLISHED
  Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
• SHUFFLE
  1. The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion. The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter. Bentley. 2. A trick; an artifice; an evasion. The gifts of nature are beyond all shame and shuffles. L'Estrange.
• UNCERTAINLY
  In an uncertain manner.
• SMOOTH-SPOKEN
  Speaking smoothly; plausible; flattering; smooth-tongued.
• POLISHABLE
  Capable of being polished.
• SMOOTHER
  One who, or that which, smooths.
• POLISHEDNESS
  The quality of being polished.
• SMOOTHING
  fr. Smooth, v. Smoothing iron, an iron instrument with a polished face, for smoothing clothes; a sadiron; a flatiron. -- Smoothing plane, a short, finely set plane, for smoothing and finishing work.
• SHUFFLEBOARD
  See SHOVELBOARD
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• SUNSHINY
  1. Bright with the rays of the sun; clear, warm, or pleasant; as, a sunshiny day. 2. Bright like the sun; resplendent. Flashing beams of that sunshiny shield. Spenser. 3. Beaming with good spirits; cheerful. "Her sunshiny face." Spenser.
• DELUSIVE
  Apt or fitted to delude; tending to mislead the mind; deceptive; beguiling; delusory; as, delusive arts; a delusive dream. Delusive and unsubstantial ideas. Whewell. -- De*lu"sive*ly, adv. -- De*lu"sive*ness, n.
• DEPOLISHING
  The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight.
• MOONSHINY
  Moonlight. I went to see them in a moonshiny night. Addison.