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glassy
/ ˈɡlɑːsɪ /
adjective
- resembling glass, esp in smoothness, slipperiness, or transparency
- void of expression, life, or warmth
a glassy stare
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Derived Forms
- ˈglassiness, noun
- ˈglassily, adverb
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Other Words From
- glassi·ly adverb
- glassi·ness noun
- un·glassy adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
Paddling across the glassy flat surface feels like sliding through warm butter.
From the street, it is an irregular glassy jewel jammed into the plaza, miniature in relation to the 105-story One World Trade.
Little Hossein was pale and his eyes looked glassy and expressionless.
She wears no make-up, her eyes are glassy, and her feverish cheeks are aglow.
The figure of the old man clutching the violin and staring with glassy eyes into the dying fire would not away.
I took heart, approached him, and raised the head-cloth, which had fallen over a part of his face; two glassy eyes stared at me.
The canoe glided swiftly along, making the only ripples there were on the glassy surface of the bay.
David, terrified, lifted the half-closed eyelid of the youth: his eye was immovable, dull and glassy.
A light skiff, blue as the waters, was shooting across the glassy surface under a steady oar.
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