Word Meanings - GLOSSY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Smooth and shining; reflecting luster from a smooth surface; highly polished; lustrous; as, glossy silk; a glossy surface. 2. Smooth; specious; plausible; as, glossy deceit.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GLOSSY)

• Glassy
• Vitreous
• smooth
• polished
• glacial
• glabrous
• brittle
• transparent
• crystalline
• pellucid
• limpid
• glossy
• silken
• Polish
• Burnish
• furbish
• levigate
• brighten
• refine
• make glossy
• Slick
• Glossy
• velvety
• satin
• shiny
• Smooth
• Even
• plain
• level
• flat
• sleek
• soft
• unruffled
• unobstructed
• bland
• oily
• suave
• Soft
• Yielding
• pressible
• impressible
• delicate
• fine
• mild
• gentle
• balmy
• kind
• feeling
• flexible
• effeminate
• luxurious
• unmanly
• tender
• irresolute
• undecided

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of GLOSSY)

• Roughen
• furrow
• disequalize
• graduate
• Withhold
• withdraw
• retain
• appropriate

Related words: (words related to GLOSSY)

• BRITTLELY
  In a brittle manner. Sherwood.
• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• ROUGHEN
  To grow or become rough.
• SATIN WEAVE
  A style of weaving producing smooth-faced fabric in which the warp interlaces with the filling at points distributed over the surface.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• SATINETTE
  One of a breed of fancy frilled pigeons allied to the owls and turbits, having the body white, the shoulders tricolored, and the tail bluish black with a large white spot on each feather.
• BLANDLY
  In a bland manner; mildly; suavely.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• BLANDNESS
  The state or quality of being bland.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• GLACIALIST
  One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers.
• PLAINTIVE
  1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n.
• 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.
• TENDERLY
  In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.
• BURNISHER
  1. One who burnishes. 2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• DELICATE
  1. A choice dainty; a delicacy. With abstinence all delicates he sees. Dryden. 2. A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person. All the vessels, then, which our delicates have, -- those I mean that would seem to be more fine in their houses than
• TENDERNESS
  The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
• SLICKENS
  The pulverized matter from a quartz mill, or the lighter soil of hydraulic mines.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• SEA LEVEL
  The level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• PREFINE
  To limit beforehand. Knolles.
• SEMICRYSTALLINE
  Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.