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glossy
- /ˈɡlɒsi/ UK
- /ˈɡlɔsi/ US
- /ˈɡlɑsi/ cot caught merger
Rhymes with -ɒsi, -ɔːsi
adjective glossier · glossiest
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Having a smooth, silklike, reflective (shiny) surface.
glossy hair
Similar: lacquerlike, satiny, sleek · Opposite: flat, matte
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Attention-grabbing and superficially attractive.
The trendy rehabs being pimped by the addiction industry's glossy PR.
Similar: eye-catching, flashy, prominent, attention-grabbing, conspicuous, glossy, grabby, high-profile, salient
Similar: glacé, glassy, glossy, lacquerlike, satiny, sheeny, sleek, slickered, splendent, vitreous · Opposite: flat, glossless, matte, speckled, speckly
noun glossies
- A glossy magazine. The supermarket glossies are full of celebrity gossip and fad diets.
- A glossy photograph. His roster of patients was drawn almost exclusively from among what he liked to call creative people, chiefly writers and painters and composers, and he talked about them so freely that I sometimes half expected him to put up autographed glossies around the office, like the ones on the wall at the S
- A film depicting people with glamorous lifestyles. Anna Magnani has been making Hollywood glossies recently, so it was good to see her back again in a native Italian production, The Last Temptation, in which with great artistry and all her usual power she played a Nun who finds a woman's and even a mother's heart beating strongly beneath her 'sister
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: glistening, lustrous, shiny, bright, shining, slick, satiny, sleek, smooth, glazed, silklike, silky, silken, satin, sheeny, calendered
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adj having a reflective surface
| Español | brillante, lustroso, reluciente |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 艶やか |
| 中文 | 光澤 /光泽 guāngzé |
| Português | lustroso |
| Français | luisant, brillant |
| Deutsch | glänzend |
| Italiano | lucido, patinato, luccicante |
| Русский | гля́нцевый gljáncevyj, блестя́щий blestjáščij |
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