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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. resembling glass in smoothness and shininess and slickness;
- Example: "the glassy surface of the lake"
- Example: "the pavement was...glassy with water"- Willa Cather

2. (used of eyes) lacking liveliness;
- Example: "empty eyes"
- Example: "a glassy stare"
- Example: "his eyes were glazed over with boredom"
[syn: glassy, glazed]

3. (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it;
- Example: "glazed pottery"
- Example: "glassy porcelain"
- Example: "hard vitreous china used for plumbing fixtures"
[syn: glassy, vitreous, vitrified]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Glassy \Glass"y\, a.
   1. Made of glass; vitreous; as, a glassy substance. --Bacon.
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   2. Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness,
      brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a
      glassy surface; the glassy deep.
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   3. Dull; wanting life or fire; lackluster; -- said of the
      eyes. "In his glassy eye." --Byron.
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   Glassy feldspar (Min.), a variety of orthoclase; sanidine.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

glassy
    adj 1: resembling glass in smoothness and shininess and
           slickness; "the glassy surface of the lake"; "the
           pavement was...glassy with water"- Willa Cather
    2: (used of eyes) lacking liveliness; "empty eyes"; "a glassy
       stare"; "his eyes were glazed over with boredom" [syn:
       glassy, glazed]
    3: (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by
       fusing a vitreous solution to it; "glazed pottery"; "glassy
       porcelain"; "hard vitreous china used for plumbing fixtures"
       [syn: glassy, vitreous, vitrified]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

55 Moby Thesaurus words for "glassy":
   blank, buffed, burnished, clear as glass, cold, dazed, deadpan,
   dull, empty, expressionless, finished, fishy, fixed, furbished,
   glace, glass, glasslike, glazed, gleaming, glossy, hyalescent,
   hyaline, hypnotic, icy, impassive, inexpressive, lacquered,
   lifeless, lustrous, poker-faced, polished, rubbed, satiny, sheeny,
   shellacked, shined, shining, shiny, silken, silky, sleek, slick,
   slippery, smarmy, smooth, staring, unexpressive, vacant, vacuous,
   varnished, velvety, vitreous, vitriform, void, wooden