glossy

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡlɒsi/    美 /ˈɡlɔsi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A glossy magazine. UK,informal
    — The supermarket glossies are full of celebrity gossip and fad diets.
  2. A glossy photograph. informal
    — His roster of patients was drawn almost exclusively from among what he liked to call creative people, chiefly writers and painters and composers, and he talked about them so freely that I sometimes half expected him to put up autographed glossies around the office, like the ones on the wall at the Stage Deli.
  3. A film depicting people with glamorous lifestyles. informal
    — Anna Magnani has been making Hollywood glossies recently, so it was good to see her back again in a native Italian production, The Last Temptation, in which with great artistry and all her usual power she played a Nun who finds a woman's and even a mother's heart beating strongly beneath her 'sister's' habit.
形容词 adj.
  1. Having a smooth, silklike, reflective (shiny) surface.
    — glossy hair
  2. Attention-grabbing and superficially attractive. figuratively
    — The trendy rehabs being pimped by the addiction industry's glossy PR.

词形变化

glossier comparative glossiest superlative glossies plural

词汇关系

近义词
glacé glassy glossy lacquerlike satiny sheeny sleek slickered splendent vitreous
反义词
flat glossless matte speckled speckly
上位词
smooth shiny
下位词
burnished polished varnished
衍生词
glossily glossiness glossy antshrike glossy hawthorn glossy ibis glossy magazine glossy paper nonglossy semiglossy ultraglossy unglossy

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English gloss
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English glossy
From gloss + -y.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English gloss
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English glossy
From gloss + -y.
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