Glassy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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: {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: {vitreous}, {vitrified}]
       [also: {glassiest}, {glassier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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