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glossy

adj
/ˈɡlɒsi/UK/ˈɡlɔsi/US/ˈɡlɑsi/

Etymology

From gloss + -y.

  1. derived from *ǵʰel-✻ — “to flourish; be green or yellow”
  2. derived from *glus-✻ — “to glow, shine”
  3. borrowed from gloos — “a glow, flare”
  4. suffixed as glossy — “gloss + y”

Definitions

  1. Having a smooth, silklike, reflective (shiny) surface.

    • glossy hair
    • glossy magazine

  2. Attention-grabbing and superficially attractive.

    • The trendy rehabs being pimped by the addiction industry's glossy PR.

  3. A glossy magazine.

    • The supermarket glossies are full of celebrity gossip and fad diets.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A glossy photograph.

      • Black and white 8- × 10-inch glossies are best, but 5- × 7-inch is okay too. Place photos on top of cardboard when mailing. Don't tape or paper-clip because doing so can ruin the photo.

    2. A film depicting people with glamorous lifestyles.

      • […] the first home-made guide to TV films by which is meant old films shown on the box, not those new Hollywood glossies made specially for it (though a guide there too would soon be welcome).

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Derived

glossily, glossiness, glossy antshrike, glossy hawthorn, glossy ibis, glossy magazine, glossy paper, nonglossy, semiglossy, ultraglossy, unglossy

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA