Adjective: glossy
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | glossier |
| Superlative | glossiest |
Perifrastic
Sample Sentences
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glossy hair
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glossy magazine
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He was in the middle of a blue world. As far as the eye could see, a sheet of water reached into the distance. The May sun shimmered on its surface. Above, high above, stretched a clear blue sky. The fresh, new sky looked so glossy and vivid that it might spill down to earth at any moment. [2002, KID, “Prologue”, in Ever 17: The Out of Infinity:]
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The trendy rehabs being pimped by the addiction industry's glossy PR. [1990 February 4, Leonard Tirado, “Privatized 'Recovery' Versus Collective Action”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 19:]
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This divisive populist electro may never shake its myriad detractors who cry foul about the glossy repackaging of the scene it’s largely indebted to, but it’s wrong to dismiss such meticulously crafted production because of its accessibility. [2015 December 25, “20 Best Albums of 2015”, in Genius:]
Adjectives inflected like glossy
syrupy,
seemly,
seggsy,
snuffy,
snippy,
snitty,
sniffy,
snotty,
snouty,
snobby,
snoozy,
snooty,
snazzy,
snappy,
snarky,
snarly,
snassy,
snaily,
snacky,
snaggy, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English gloss
3. Proto-Indo-European *-kos
4. Proto-Germanic *-gaz
5. Proto-West Germanic *-g
6. Old English -iġ
7. Middle English -y
8. English -y
9. English glossy
10. From gloss + -y.
Verbs referencing "glossy"
English Adjectives
glissy.