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US
/ˈɡɫɔsi/
]
[ UK /ɡlˈɒsi/ ]
[ UK /ɡlˈɒsi/ ]
NOUN
- a photograph that is printed on smooth shiny paper
- a magazine printed on good quality paper
ADJECTIVE
-
(of paper and fabric and leather) having a surface made smooth and shiny especially by pressing between rollers
glossy paper
calendered paper -
reflecting light
lustrous auburn hair
saw the moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet
shining white enamel
glistening bodies of swimmers
the horse's glossy coat -
based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
meretricious praise
a meretricious argument
the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility -
superficially attractive and stylish; suggesting wealth or expense
a glossy TV series
How To Use glossy In A Sentence
- She pulled the black scrunchie out of her long glossy red-gold hair, the silky strands having been confined in a simple low, sleek ponytail.
- Penguin used to do these great science fiction paperback editions, and they had one series with really evocative paintings — glossy, garish, almost hyperrealist — on the covers. Ballardian » The 032c Interview: Simon Reynolds on Ballard, part 2
- American bittersweet is valued for its glossy green summer foliage followed by orange and red fruits and seeds, and several landscape cultivars are commercially marketed.
- On walls, ivy was glossy leaved and covered in clusters of green berries waiting to ripen to black. Times, Sunday Times
- The beast was as huge as an aurochs, its glossy midnight mane shining in the sunlight as it pawed the ground restlessly with one forehoof.
- Bed doth a goddess inarm; smooth ivory glossy from Indies, Poems and Fragments
- All these glossy pamphlets are just window dressing - the fact is that the new mall will ruin the neighborhood.
- Their lavish do was paid for by a glossy magazine. The Sun
- One of my greatest pet peeves in anime is the glossy disregard for detail in action scenes.
- There are good bedside reading lamps and stacks of glossy magazines. Times, Sunday Times
