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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Characteristic of or resembling glass.
- adjective Lifeless; expressionless.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling or of the nature of glass; vitreous: as, a glassy substance.
- Resembling glass in some quality, as smoothness, brittleness, transparency, or power of reflecting; hence, as applied to the eye or glance, having a fixed, unintelligent stare, as in idiocy, stupidity, spasm, terror, insanity, or death.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Made of glass; vitreous.
- adjective Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency
- adjective Dull; wanting life or fire; lackluster; -- said of the eyes.
- adjective (Min.) a variety of orthoclase; sanidine.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or like
glass , in particularsmooth and (somewhat)reflective . - adjective Dull,
expressionless - adjective surfing
Absence of anychop on the water, making it smooth like glass.Swell creatingbreaking waves may still be present, glassy doesn't imply completeflatness . - noun Ulster
glass marble
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective resembling glass in smoothness and shininess and slickness
- adjective (used of eyes) lacking liveliness
- adjective (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it
Etymologies
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Examples
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I placed the two halves under the broiler for a few seconds and they came out a bit warm covered in glassy, shiny sugar layer.
An epiphany about grapefruit | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009
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It is too easy to become characterized as the glassy-eyed idealists who believe too much in the magic wonder herb when we supply targets that are so easily shot down.
Russ Belville: 10 Lessons Learned from Marijuana Election Defeats Russ Belville 2010
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It is too easy to become characterized as the glassy-eyed idealists who believe too much in the magic wonder herb when we supply targets that are so easily shot down.
Russ Belville: 10 Lessons Learned from Marijuana Election Defeats Russ Belville 2010
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It is too easy to become characterized as the glassy-eyed idealists who believe too much in the magic wonder herb when we supply targets that are so easily shot down.
Russ Belville: 10 Lessons Learned from Marijuana Election Defeats Russ Belville 2010
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And if, at the end of this, you aren't crossing your eyes or skipping over these entries in glassy-eyed, polite boredom, I'll dig up the LUNA contracts for contrast.
Contract questions msagara 2004
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If the stream is narrow and brush-lined, or when the trout are lying in glassy shallow water close to the banks, I still prefer the upstream approach.
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It is too easy to become characterized as the glassy-eyed idealists who believe too much in the magic wonder herb when we supply targets that are so easily shot down.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Russ Belville 2010
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She actually did call glassy-eyed Governor Bill Owen of Colorado out on his RNC mandated stream of consiousness blather about "Aldrich Ames - Brooklyn bridge - Jamie Gorelick - known terrorists - protecting America - 9/11 - Clintoncarterdemocrats."
Hullabaloo 2005
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She actually did call glassy-eyed Governor Bill Owen of Colorado out on his RNC mandated stream of consiousness blather about "Aldrich Ames - Brooklyn bridge - Jamie Gorelick - known terrorists - protecting America - 9/11 - Clintoncarterdemocrats."
Hullabaloo 2005
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She actually did call glassy-eyed Governor Bill Owen of Colorado out on his RNC mandated stream of consiousness blather about "Aldrich Ames - Brooklyn bridge - Jamie Gorelick - known terrorists - protecting America - 9/11 - Clintoncarterdemocrats."
Hullabaloo 2005
Related Words
synonyms (59)
Words with the same meaning
- blank
- buffed
- burnished
- clear as glass
- cold
- dazed
- deadpan
- dull
- empty
- expressionless
- finished
- fishy
- fixed
- furbished
- glace
- glass
- glasslike
- glazed
- gleaming
- glossy
- hyalescent
- hyaline
- hyaloid
- hypnotic
- icy
- impassive
- inexpressive
- lackluster
- lacquered
- lifeless
- lustrous
- poker-faced
- polished
- rubbed
- satiny
- sheeny
- shellacked
- shined
- shining
- shiny
- silken
- silky
- sleek
- slick
- slippery
- smarmy
- smooth
- staring
- subvitreous
- unexpressive
- vacant
- vacuous
- varnished
- velvety
- vitreous
- vitric
- vitriform
- void
- wooden
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