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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.
(flat)
251;
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
etc.
(feathery)
256.
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Roget 420:
shining
etc.
v.;
luminous,
luminiferous†;
lucid,
lucent,
luculent†,
lucific†,
luciferous;
light,
lightsome;
bright,
vivid,
splendent†,
nitid†,
lustrous,
shiny,
beamy†,
scintillant†,
radiant,
lambent;
sheen,
sheeny;
glossy,
burnished,
glassy,
sunny,
orient,
meridian;
noonday,
tide;
cloudless,
clear;
unclouded,
unobscured†.
gairish†,
garish;
resplendent,
transplendent†;
refulgent,
effulgent;
fulgid†,
fulgent†;
relucent†,
splendid,
blazing,
in a blaze,
ablaze,
rutilant†,
meteoric,
phosphorescent;
aglow.
bright as silver;
light as day,
bright as day,
light as noonday,
bright as noonday,
bright as the sun at noonday.
actinic;
photogenic,
graphic;
heliographic;
heliophagous†.
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Roget 422:
dim,
dull,
lackluster,
dingy,
darkish,
shorn of its beams,
dark
421.
faint,
shadowed forth;
glassy;
cloudy;
misty
etc.
(opaque)
426;
blear;
muggy†,
fuliginous†;
nebulous,
nebular;
obnubilated†,
overcast,
crepuscular,
muddy,
lurid,
leaden,
dun,
dirty;
looming
etc.
v..
pale
etc.
(colorless)
429;
confused
etc.
(invisible)
447.
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Roget 429:
uncolored
etc.
(color)
etc.
428;
colorless,
achromatic,
aplanatic†;
etiolate,
etiolated;
hueless†,
pale,
pallid;
palefaced†,
tallow-faced;
faint,
dull,
cold,
muddy,
leaden,
dun,
wan,
sallow,
dead,
dingy,
ashy,
ashen,
ghastly,
cadaverous,
glassy,
lackluster;
discolored
etc.
v..
light-colored,
fair,
blond;
white
etc.
430.
pale as death,
pale as ashes,
pale as a witch,
pale as a ghost,
pale as a corpse,
white as a corpse.
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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†,
glassy,
hyaline;
hyaloid [Med.],
vitreform†.
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Moby thesaurus: blank, buffed, burnished, clear as glass, cold, dazed, deadpan, dull, empty, expressionless, finished, fishy, fixed, furbished, glace, glass, glasslike, glazed, gleaming, glossy, hyalescent, hyaline, hypnotic, icy, impassive, inexpressive, lacquered, lifeless, lustrous, poker-faced, polished, rubbed, satiny, sheeny, shellacked, shined, shining, shiny, silken, silky, sleek, slick, slippery, smarmy, smooth, staring, unexpressive, vacant, vacuous, varnished, velvety, vitreous, vitriform, void, wooden ... show more.
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