Glossy

Definition: Glossy

Glossy

Adjective

1. Having a smooth, gleaming surface; "glossy auburn hair"; "satiny gardenia petals"; "sleek black fur"; "silken eyelashes"; "silky skin"; "a silklike fabric"; "slick seals and otters".

2. (of paper and fabric and leather) having a surface made smooth and glossy especially by pressing between rollers; "calendered paper"; "a dress of glossy sateen".

3. Reflecting light; "glistening bodies of swimmers"; "the horse's glossy coat"; "lustrous auburn hair"; "saw the moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet"; "shining white enamel".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "glossy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1700. (references)

Note: Glossy \Gloss"y\, adjective. [Comparative Glossier; superlative Glossiest.]. (references)

Synonyms: Glossy

Beauty

Brilliant, shining; beamy, beaming; sparkling, splendid, resplendent, dazzling, glowing; glossy, sleek.

Painting

Photograph, color photograph, black-and-white photograph, holograph, heliograph; daguerreotype, talbotype, calotype, heliotype; negative, positive; print, glossy print, matte print; enlargement, reduction, life-size print; instant photo, Polaroid photo.

Smoothness

Adjective: smooth; polished; Verb: leiodermatous, slick, velutinous; even; level; plane; (flat); sleek, glossy; silken, silky; lanate, downy, velvety; glabrous, slippery, glassy, lubricous, oily, soft, unwrinkled; smooth as glass, smooth as ice, smooth as monumental alabaster, smooth as velvet, smooth as oil; slippery as an eel; woolly; (feathery).

Crosswords: Glossy

High Tech

• Polaroid Photo Glossy Letter Size Paper for Color Printers (reference)

• 4 X 6 Glossy Inkjet Paper 24 Sheets 4 X 6 55LBS. (reference)

• Big Picture Glossy Cd Labels (reference)

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Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Glossy ibis - Plegadis falcinellus. Hope Island provides a safe haven for this species for breeding. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Glossy Ibis. Credit: Bob Hines.

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The bright sun was gleaming through the new and glossy leaves

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Business

Includes some glossy photographs and articles about cars from different countries. (references)

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Expressions using "glossy": glossy calendered ♦ glossy magazine ♦ glossy magazines ♦ glossy paper ♦ glossy print ♦ glossy skin ♦ glossy snake ♦ glossy surface. Additional references.

Beginning with "glossy": glossy-black, glossy-floored, glossy-haired, glossy-leaved, glossy-lipped, glossy-looking, glossy-magazine, glossy-new, glossy-roofed, glossy-text.

Ending with "glossy": once-glossy.

Albanian

me shkëlqim (brightly, glaringly, lustrous, richly, shining, shiny, sleek), me lustër, i shkëlqyer (admirable, bright, brilliant, capital, choice, copybook, corking, crack, cracking, Dandy, divine, excellent, fabulous, famous, fantastic, fantastical, fine, first rate, flamboyant, gaudy, glazy, glorious, gorgeous, great, heavenly, immense, marvellous, marvelous, perfect, pink, plum, powerful, prize, pukka, rare, ripping, royal, smashing, splendid, splendiferous, whizzbang, wicked). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ملمع (polished, satin), ‏لماع, ‏لامع (blazing, bright, brilliant, burnished, dazzling, flamboyant, flashing, glazed, gleaming, glimmering, glistering, glittering, glossed, golden, high, lambent, lucid, lustrous, outstanding, polished, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, sheen, shining, shiny, showy, sleek, slick, sparkle, sparkling, star, staring), ‏حسن الظاهر, ‏براق (brilliant, flaming, incandescent, lustrous, meretricious, opalescent, prismatic, radiant, sheeny, shining, shiny, specular, tawdriness). (various references)

Bulgarian 

снимка на гланцова хартия, гланцов, лъскав (agleam, chatoyant, ganoid, glace, glazy, lustrous, satiny, sheeny, shiny, sleek), луксозно списание (slick), превзет (affected, cute, flamboyant, fussy, histrionic, lackadaisical, mannered, mincing, minikin, namby-pamby, nice, niminy-piminy, old-maidish, pansy, precious, pretentious, pretty, pretty-pretty, priggish, prim, prissy, pseudo, recherche, schoolmistressy, sidy, snobbish, stuffy), полиран (bright, polished, varnished), излъскан (shiny). (various references)

Chinese 

光滑 (sleek, smooth). (various references)

Czech

lesklý (bright, glassy, gleaming, glossal, polished, resplendent, shining, shiny, tawdry). (various references)

Danish

glossy skin (glossy skin, neuritic atrophoderma), sort ibis (glossy ibis, Usa: Eastern glossy ibis), skinnende negl (glossy nail), skinnende øje (glossy eye), lille ravnekakadue (glossy cockatoo, raven cockatoo), hoejglitning (glossy finish), højglanskopi (glossy print), højglansaftryk (glossy print), blank fiber (glossy fibre), atrophoderma neuriticum (glossy skin, neuritic atrophoderma). (various references)

Dutch

glossy skin (glossy skin, neuritic atrophoderma), glossy magazine (glossy magazine), glossy (glossy magazine), glanzende nagel (glossy nail), glanzende huid (glossy skin, neuritic atrophoderma), glanzend oppervlak (glossy surface), glanzend oog (glossy eye), gladde huid (glossy skin, neuritic atrophoderma), zwarte ibis (glossy ibis, Usa: Eastern glossy ibis), leioderma (glossy skin, neuritic atrophoderma), ibis (ibis), hoogglanzende kopie (glossy print), hogere glans (glossy finish), atrophia cutis (glossy skin, idiopathic diffuse dermatrophy, neuritic atrophoderma). (various references)

Farsi 

صیقلی (Levigate, Reflective, Shiny, Sleek, Slight, Smooth), صاف (Clear, Even, Explicit, Flat, Limpid, Plain, Plane, Serene, Silken, Sleek, Slick, Unruffled), خوش نما (Pretty, Showy), جلادار, براق (Lucid, Shiny, Silken, Sleek, Splendid). (various references)

Finnish

kiiltopintainen (glazed), kiiltävä (bright, shiny). (various references)

French

vernissé, lustré (glazed), luisant (gleaming), laqué, brillant (glamorous, gleam, glistening, gloss, glossiness, glow). (various references)

German

glänzend (brilliant, brilliantly, clinking, dazzling, effulgent, effulgently, gleaming, gleamy, glistening, glittering, glossily, glossing, ingenious, ingeniously, lustered, lustrous, lustrously, marvelous, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, resplendently, sheeny, shinily, shining, shiny, sparkling, splendid, splendidly, vintage). (various references)

Greek 

στιλπνός (resplendent, silky, sleek), γυαλιστερός (shiny), λείοσ (sleek, slick, smooth). (various references)

Hebrew 

מבריק (brilliant, glowing, lustrous, shining, shiny, sparkling, spick and span, vivid, whizz). (various references)

Hungarian

fényes (bright, glorious, illustrious, lustrous, pompous, refulgent, satiny, sheeny, shining, shiny, sleek, sumptuous), sima (calm, chimaera, clean, flat, glassy, glib, like a mill-pond, plane, sedate, sleek, slick, smooth, smooth air, smooth as glass, smooth working, soft, untroubled). (various references)

Indonesian

mengkilap (burnish, vitreous). (various references)

Italian

lustro (glory, gloss, luster, lustre, lustrous, moist, prestige, sheen, shine, shining, shiny), lucido (bright, brightness, lucid, luster, lustre, polished, sheen, shine, shining, shoe polish, sleek, tracing). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

艶艶した (bright), 艶艶 (bright, slick), 艶々 (bright, slick), 艶やか (beautiful, bewitching, fascinatingly elegant), 渥然たる . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

つやつやした (bright), つやつや (bright, slick), つややか (beautiful), あくぜ�"たる. (various references)

Korean 

광택 있�" (Glossier, Glossiest). (various references)

Manx

gloasagh (glace). (various references)

Norwegian

glatt (even, flush, glib, icy, lank), blank. (various references)

Pig Latin

ossyglay.(various references)

Portuguese

polido (attentive, cleanly cut, courtly, gentle, mannerly, neat, net, polished, polite, precise, shiny, sleek, sleeky, smooth, specular, urbane, well-bred, well-spoken), lustroso (beady, glace, glazed, glazy, lustrous, sheeny, shiny, silken, silky, sleek, sleeky, slick, smooth, spick and span, splendent), liso (even-minded, flat, hard-up, lank, level, plane, sleek, sleeky, slick, unruffled), acetinado (glazed, lustrous, satiny, sericeous, silky). (various references)

Romanian

sticlos (glassy, hyaline, hyaloid, vitreous), lustruit (glazed, lustrous, polished, sleek, varnish), lucios (bright, lustrous, polished, shiny, sleek), fals (apparent, artificial, bad, base, bogus, cant, colourable, counterfeit, deceitful, double dealing, dud, dummy, erroneous, erroneously, error, factitious, fake, false, falsehood, feigned, flash, forged, forgery, fraud, hollow, hollow-hearted, imitation, imposture, insincere, lying, mendacious, mistaken, mock, painted, phony, plugged, reprobate, sham, spurious, sugary, tinsel, treacherous, trumpery, truthless, two faced, unnatural, unnaturally, untrue, wrong, wrongfully). (various references)

Russian 

глянцевитый (glazy), лощеный (polished), блестящий (brilliant, glistening, glittery, glitzy, lambent, luminous, resplendent, sheeny, shining, shiny, sparkly, splendent, splendorous). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sjajan (beaming, bright, brilliant, effulgent, fulgent, glace, glittering, glossal, gorgeous, luminous, lustrous, polished, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, shining, shiny, spanking, splendent, splendid, splendiferous). (various references)

Shona

hwidzikwidzi (Cape glossy starling). (various references)

Spanish

lustroso (lustrous, reflective), brillante (agleam, alight, bright, brilliant, dashing, diamond, flashing, gay, glaring, glazy, glistening, glowing, high, lurid, quicksilver, radiant, reflective, scintillant, scintillating, sheeny, shining, shiny, sparkling, starry, twinkling). (various references)

Swedish

glansig (glazed, lustrous). (various references)

Turkish

gösterişli (artsy, Arty, arty-crafty, baronial, bombastic, chichi, dashing, declamatory, dressy, flamboyant, flash, flashily, flashy, flatulent, Flossy, garish, gingerbread, meretricious, Nobby, ostentatious, polished, posh, showy, sleek, smart, spectacular, splendent, sporty, swanky, swish, thoroughbred, viewy), sahte tavırlı, parlak (aglow, ardent, bright, brightly, brilliant, clear, dazzling, effulgent, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flashily, flashy, fulgent, fulgurant, glace, glittering, glowing, gorgeous, illuminant, incandescent, irradiant, jazzy, lambent, live, lively, loud, lucent, luminescent, luminous, lustrous, meteoric, oriental, polished, pyrotechnic, pyrotechnical, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, sheeny, shining, shiny, sleek, sparkling, splendent, splendid, star, staring, starry, sunny, vivid), kuşe kâğıtlı dergi (glossy magazine, slick, slick paper), kuşe kâğıda basılmış, cilâlı. (various references)

Ukrainian

блискучий (brilliant, coruscating, crackajack, crackerjack, crackling, incandescent, lambent, luminous, lustrous, nitid, oriental, polished, quicksilver, radiant, resplendent, sensational, shining, showy, signal, sparkling, splendent, splendid), прихований (arcane, blind, bosomed, close, closet, concealed, covert, cryptic, delitescent, furtive, hideaway, latent, obscure, obumbrate, occulted, privy, secret, stealthy, ulterior, underneath, veiled). (various references)

Vietnamese 

h� o nhoáng (flashy, gingerbread, spicy, tawdry), bóng loáng, bề ngo� i (aspect, exterior, face, outside, seeming, superficies, veneer). (various references)

Welsh

graenus (of good grain, sleek), gloyw (bright, clear, shiny), llathr (bright, smooth). (various references)

Calyptorhynchus lathami, Plegadis falcinellus, RM:ibis dal bec tort. (various references)

Misspellings

"Glossy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Galozzi, Glassey, gleasy, glosey, glosi, glossia, Glsi, Glso, Glssi, gossi, gossy, groszy, Lossky, lossy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: gloss, lossy, slogs.

-2 letters: goys, logs, logy, loss, slog, sols, soys.

-3 letters: gos, goy, log, sly, sol, sos, soy.

-4 letters: go, lo, os, oy, so, yo.

+1 letter: grossly.

+2 letters: glossary, glossily, gossypol, lysogens.

+3 letters: glycosyls, gossypols, strongyls, syllogism, syllogist.

+4 letters: glycolyses, glycolysis, glycosides, lysogenies, lysogenise, missiology, oxygenless, seismology, songlessly, strongyles, syllogisms, syllogists, syllogizes.

+5 letters: bryologists, cytologists, dyslogistic, galactosyls, glycosidase, glycosurias, gypsophilas, hypoglossal, lysogenised, lysogenises, lysogenizes, mycologists, polygamists, polygeneses, polygenesis, sagaciously, semasiology, syllogistic, symbolising, symbologies, typologists.