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glassy

adjective

1 glassy

Resembling glass in smoothness and shininess and slickness.

Roget 255: smooth; polished etc. v.; leiodermatous, slick, velutinous; even; level etc. 213; plane etc. ... show more

Roget 420: shining etc. v.; luminous, luminiferous; lucid, lucent, luculent, lucific, luciferous; light, lightsome; bright, ... show more

Roget 422: dim, dull, lackluster, dingy, darkish, shorn of its beams, dark 421.    faint, shadowed forth; glassy; cloudy; misty etc. ... show more

Roget 429: uncolored etc. (color) etc. 428; colorless, achromatic, aplanatic; etiolate, etiolated; hueless, pale, pallid; palefaced, ... show more

2 glassy

used of eyes Lacking liveliness:
— A glassy stare.

synonym: glazed.

3 glassy

of ceramics Having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it:
— Glassy porcelain.

synonyms: vitreous, vitrified.

Roget 425: transparent, pellucid, lucid, diaphanous, translucent, tralucent, relucent; limpid, clear, serene, crystalline, clear as crystal, vitreous, transpicuous, ... show more


Moby thesaurus: blank, buffed, burnished, clear as glass, cold, dazed, deadpan, dull, empty, expressionless, finished, fishy, fixed, furbished, glace, glass, glasslike, glazed, gleaming, glossy ... show more.

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