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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