A magazine printed on good quality paper.

synonyms: slick, slick magazine.

A photograph that is printed on smooth shiny paper.

Based on pretense; deceptively pleasing.

synonyms: gilded, meretricious, specious.

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.    ... show more

Roget 845: beautiful, beauteous; handsome; gorgeous; pretty; lovely, graceful, elegant, prepossessing; attractive etc. (inviting) 615; delicate, dainty, refined; fair, personable, comely, seemly; bonny [Scot.]; good-looking; well-favored, well-made, well-formed, well-proportioned; proper, shapely; symmetrical etc. (regular) 242; harmonious etc. (color) 428; sightly.    fit to be seen, passable, not amiss.    goodly, dapper, tight, jimp^†; gimp; janty^†, jaunty; trig, natty, quaint, trim, tidy, neat, spruce, smart, tricksy^†.    bright, bright eyed; rosy cheeked, cherry cheeked; rosy, ruddy; blooming, in full bloom.    brilliant, shining; beamy^†, beaming; sparkling, splendid, resplendent, dazzling, glowing; glossy, sleek.    rich, superb, magnificent, grand, fine, sublime, showy, specious.    artistic, artistical^†; aesthetic; picturesque, pictorial; fait a peindre [Fr.]; well-composed, well grouped, well varied; curious.    enchanting etc. (pleasure-giving) 829; becoming etc. (accordant) 23; ornamental etc. 847.    undeformed, undefaced, unspotted; spotless etc. (perfect) 650.    ... show more

of paper and fabric and leather Having a surface made smooth and shiny especially by pressing between rollers:
— Glossy paper.

synonym: calendered.

Reflecting light:
— The horse's glossy coat.

synonyms: glistening, lustrous, sheeny, shining, shiny.

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^†.    ... show more

Polish: połyskujący, błyszczący, lśniący, łyskliwy

Superficially attractive and stylish; suggesting wealth or expense:
— A glossy TV series.

synonym: showy.