glassy
pronunciation
How to pronounce glassy in British English:
UK [ˈglɑ:si]
How to pronounce glassy in American English:
US [ˈglæsi]
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- Adjective:
- resembling glass in smoothness and shininess and slickness
- used of eyes lacking liveliness
- (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it
Word Origin
- glassy (adj.)
- late 14c., from glass (n.) + -y (2). From early 15c. in reference to the eye, etc., "fixed and expressionless."
Example
- 1. These glassy one is found in volcano rock .
- 2. It is in part a reaction to the glassy perfection of this self-conscious society .
- 3. Voltammetric behavior of ethambutol on a glassy carbon electrode and its application .
- 4. We skate on the glassy surface of the freeze pond .
- 5. But it 's not my sea . I like it glassy .