Glassy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Characteristic of or resembling glass.
  • adj. Lifeless; expressionless: "the face changing to a demon's face with a fixed glassy grin” ( Katherine Anne Porter).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of or like glass, in particular smooth and (somewhat) reflective.
  • adj. Dull, expressionless
  • adj. Absence of any chop on the water, making it smooth like glass. Swell creating breaking waves may still be present, glassy doesn't imply complete flatness.
  • n. glass marble
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Made of glass; vitreous.
  • adj. Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency
  • adj. Dull; wanting life or fire; lackluster; -- said of the eyes.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Resembling or of the nature of glass; vitreous: as, a glassy substance.
  • Resembling glass in some quality, as smoothness, brittleness, transparency, or power of reflecting; hence, as applied to the eye or glance, having a fixed, unintelligent stare, as in idiocy, stupidity, spasm, terror, insanity, or death.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. resembling glass in smoothness and shininess and slickness
  • adj. (used of eyes) lacking liveliness
  • adj. (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it
  • Equivalent
    smooth    empty    glazed    shiny   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    glassiest    glassier   
    Form
    glassily    glassiness   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    vitreous    dull    lackluster    vitric    hyaline    hyaloid    hyalescent    subvitreous   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Cassie    Lassie    Malagasy    Massey    Tallahassee    Vasey    assay    bassi    brassy    cassie   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    silvery    translucent    milky    icy    crystalline    shiny    oily    expressionless    stony    brittle