high-gloss shine
- noun
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- She preferred furniture with a high-gloss shine for a modern look.
Examples
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They're not high gloss shine pieces like you would see on PVC or latex, right?
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They're not high gloss shine pieces like you would see on PVC or latex, right?
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The car's paint had a beautiful high-gloss shine after the detailing service.
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To achieve a high-gloss shine, you need to polish the surface regularly.
Synonyms
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4.2
A soft, smooth shine on a surface that looks healthy or attractive
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3.7
A smooth shiny coating on food or pottery
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3.7
The state of being smooth and shiny
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4.4
A neat, elegant appearance that shows attention to detail
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2.0
How bright and smooth a surface is when it sends back light
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4.1
A smooth, shiny surface that reflects light
How much a surface reflects light and looks shiny
A smooth, shiny surface created by polishing
A very shiny finish you make on wood by rubbing on thin coats of shellac mixed with alcohol
A neat, smooth appearance that seems expensive
Antonyms
How Shiny
Surface Forms
Morphology
high-gloss + shine
The sense 'a very shiny, highly reflective surface' is directly and predictably built from 'high-gloss' (very glossy/highly reflective) plus 'shine' (visual radiance), so the overall meaning follows straightforward compositional logic. Even if 'high-gloss' is not listed separately, the adjective + noun pattern and cross-linguistic equivalents make this immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
The term high-gloss shine comes from the image of a surface so smooth and polished that light bounces off it like a mirror. The word high means 'very' and gloss means 'shine', so the phrase now means 'a very shiny, highly reflective finish'.