glassy
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
glassy
adj 1: resembling glass in smoothness and shininess and
slickness; "the glassy surface of the lake"; "the
pavement was...glassy with water"- Willa Cather
2: (used of eyes) lacking liveliness; "empty eyes"; "a glassy
stare"; "his eyes were glazed over with boredom" [syn:
{glassy}, {glazed}]
3: (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by
fusing a vitreous solution to it; "glazed pottery"; "glassy
porcelain"; "hard vitreous china used for plumbing fixtures"
[syn: {glassy}, {vitreous}, {vitrified}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Glassy \Glass"y\, a.
1. Made of glass; vitreous; as, a glassy substance. --Bacon.
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2. Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness,
brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a
glassy surface; the glassy deep.
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3. Dull; wanting life or fire; lackluster; -- said of the
eyes. "In his glassy eye." --Byron.
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{Glassy feldspar} (Min.), a variety of orthoclase; sanidine.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
55 Moby Thesaurus words for "glassy":
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
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