glassy
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3.9
- adjective
- /ˈɡlæs.i/
:
vidrioso
- All the saints adore Thee, ♪ casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea.
- glassy tuffs
- glassy-winged
The lake will be calm and glassy right next to the tree.
- The lake will be calm and glassy right next to the tree.
- This wave broke and it was the most perfect wave ever glassy.
- It's just got this really beautiful hint of a deep red in there and it'll just put the most glorious glassy stain on the lips.
- And so glassy substance became known as vitriols.
- And now we're going from that glassy phase back to the crystal phase where the molecules are realigned and they're rigid.
- The koi kissing Halos into the glassy air.
Examples
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Behind it were riffles of gray and yellow, some insects hovering, glassy blue swells that seemed almost magical.
Fiction book (1995) -
So it feels very glassy on the front, but it's not glass.
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The lake will be calm and glassy right next to the tree.
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I can tell it's going to look glassy for some time, just until that naturally starts to wear down.
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We ate dinner in a glassy booth high above the track.
Fiction book (1994) -
I feel a yearning to go jump on a paddle board and be on glassy water and paddle.
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Pushing her sleeves up past her elbows, she plunged her hands into the glassy water.
Fiction book (1996) -
There is a willow grows aslant the brook... that shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.
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I swear I didn't even see her!" He touched a glassy leaf tentatively; his eyes sought Nyx's.
Fiction book (1993) -
The road was glassy after the rain, reflecting the streetlights like a mirror.
Synonyms
302
1.0
Bright and smooth because it reflects light
34
2.6
Having a smooth shiny surface that reflects light like paper or hair
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2.1
A shiny, smooth surface after being rubbed or cleaned
1
6.7
Having a smooth, shiny surface that reflects light
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3.8
It looks and feels like smooth clear glass
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4.1
Having a hard, smooth, clear surface like glass
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8.5
Having a smooth, shiny, and slightly see-through surface like glass
A thing that looks and feels like glass, smooth and shiny
Having a smooth shiny surface, often on pottery or tiles
Antonyms
How Shiny
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Glassy comes from glass, the clear shiny material, plus the ending -y, which means 'like' or 'full of'. So something glassy is 'like glass' — smooth and shiny, which is why we call a pottery or tile surface glassy.