| Pronunciation: | | 'glasee
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- [adj] used of eyes lacking liveliness; "empty eyes"; "a glassy stare"; "his eyes were glazed over with boredom"
- [adj] (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"
- [adj] resembling glass in smoothness and shininess and slickness; "the glassy surface of the lake"; "the pavement was...glassy with water"- Willa Cather
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| | Synonyms: | | empty, glazed, shiny, smooth, vitreous, vitrified |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Glass"y\, a.
1. Made of glass; vitreous; as, a glassy substance. --Bacon.
2. Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness,
brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a
glassy surface; the glassy deep.
3. Dull; wanting life or fire; lackluster; -- said of the
eyes. ``In his glassy eye.'' --Byron.
{Glassy feldspar} (Min.), a variety of orthoclase; sanidine.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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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