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单词 glossy
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Definition of glossy in English:

glossy

adjectiveglossier, glossiest ˈɡlɒsi
  • 1Shiny and smooth.

    有光泽的,光滑的

    thick, glossy, manageable hair

    浓密,光亮而又易梳理的头发。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A small green leafed fern sprawled across the opposite corner of the glossy surface.
    • He was sitting with his legs up on the seat in front of him with the sun shining on his glossy chestnut brown hair.
    • This attractive, glossy red apple has some resistance to diseases such as apple scab, cedar apple rust, and fire blight.
    • Laurel makes an attractive alternative with its large, glossy light-reflecting leaves and wide capacity.
    • The result is permanent pin straight hair with super glossy shine.
    • I'm not beautiful, I don't have silky smooth, glossy hair and stick thin legs.
    • She was a tall woman, slim and delicate, with a wealth of glossy raven hair.
    • I stared into the glossy surface of the orb, looking at my reflection.
    • You'll also need an anti-humectant styling product with silicone to lock in your style and make hair smooth and glossy.
    • The leaves may be taking time to change and fall this autumn, but berries are in abundance and attracting birds to their glossy skins and bright colours.
    • Her glossy black hair shone in the afternoon sun, and her green eyes burned just as ferociously.
    • She pulled the black scrunchie out of her long glossy red-gold hair, the silky strands having been confined in a simple low, sleek ponytail.
    • He had big hands on long arms, and his hair was glossy black, gathered in a ponytail, and he looked dangerous.
    • The crystal pieces are contemporary in style and stylishly presented in glossy white boxes with a turquoise silk ribbon.
    • Then she takes a breath and smoothes down her glossy, dark hair.
    • Her hair was a glossy black and her eyes were of a pale blue.
    • The pointer was already spelling something else, moving eerily across the glossy surface.
    • His hair was a glossy raven black, attractively messy in a way that suggested more time had been spent on it than one would first think.
    • They produce attractive leathery glossy leaves which, depending on species and variety, add colour in winter.
    Synonyms
    shiny, shining, gleaming, lustrous, bright, brilliant, sparkling, shimmering, glistening, sleek, silky, silken, satiny, sheeny, smooth, glassy
    polished, burnished, glazed, waxed, japanned, shellacked, lacquered
    rare nitid, patinated
    1. 1.1 (of a magazine or photograph) printed on high-quality smooth shiny paper.
      (杂志或照片)用高质量的有光纸印刷的
      a 16-page glossy brochure
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Even glossy magazines can be printed on recycled stock now.
      • She pulled out a set of large scale, glossy photographs and a clean sheet of letter paper.
      • The photos above it are my own, printed on my home computer/printer on glossy photo paper.
      • Selected frames were printed on high quality, glossy photographic paper.
      • In between times, she continued to paint and write articles for many glossy coffee table publications.
      • The house's beautiful interior was photographed earlier this year for a glossy magazine.
      • All these consultants and their public consultations will end up producing shelves and shelves of glossy documents with artist's impressions etc and result in not one single brick being laid.
      • This is the sort of thick paper, nicely printed glossy lifestyle magazine that looks nice on your coffee table.
      • Printed on glossy paper and lavishly illustrated with photographs and artists' drawings, it cost no less than 50 shillings when published.
      • However, if the end result is going to be a very glossy coffee table book they may shoot in 5x4 inches or even 10x8 inches.
      • An educated guess would be that the pictures are, indeed, touched up and air-brushed because most photographs in glossy magazines are.
      • You've heard of the magalogue - the glossy magazine as shopping catalogue.
      • The paper is glossy, with high-quality reproduction of photographs.
      • It is a glossy, expensive 22 page long document, liberally illustrated with colour photographs.
      • Except for the occasional story he got in a glossy magazine, the photographs could be re-sized on a color copier without impacting their usefulness.
      • In fact security would be so tight that they would probably all be refused entry, bar the photographer from a glossy magazine.
      • The pair are believed to have turned down a £1.5m offer for the rights to the wedding photos from a glossy magazine.
      • Many of them will have bought a glossy guidebook detailing the history, attractions, hotels and nightlife on offer at the resort.
      • He doesn't even go near the pavement booksellers, however attractive their display of paperbacks in glossy covers looked.
      • The orchid is their darling, the perfect flower for the perfect home as displayed in photographic spreads in glossy magazines all over the world.
  • 2Superficially attractive, stylish, and suggesting wealth.

    (表面上)时髦动人的,富丽堂皇的

    a glossy TV miniseries

    时髦浮华的电视连续剧和肥皂剧。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The film unfolds in this stupefying, glossy fashion until it gradually finds a pulse.
    • So the sets look glamorous and glossy, yet the lighting creates startling contrasts between light and shadow.
    • In just a few months a small number of campaigners fought against the expensive and glossy propaganda pushed out by the privateers.
    • Those roads have attractions of their own but they're too urbanised, glossy, and over-rated for us.
    • They prefer to market the classics on a more glossy superficial level; the profound conductor and seriously dutiful players are a thing of the past.
    • More than any other medium, our perception of architecture is increasingly mediated through renders, walkthroughs and glossy artist's impressions.
    • The company has set out to prove once again that it can not only compete with Hollywood at their own game, but create glossy miniseries that feel like feature films.
    • Only then do they step into the glossy silver shops for expensive varieties.
    • An expensive box with glossy graphics will not increase your sales.
    • Better suited to countries where the sky is blue from May to September, they look glossy and glamorous on holiday but out of place back in Blighty.
    Synonyms
    expensive, high-quality, well produced
    stylish, fashionable, glamorous, sophisticated
    attractive, artistic
    British upmarket
    coffee-table
    informal classy, ritzy, glitzy, arty
nounPlural glossies ˈɡlɒsi
informal
  • 1A magazine printed on glossy paper, containing many colour photographs and typically devoted to fashion, beauty, celebrities, etc.

    he's been touted in some upmarket glossies as the thinking woman's crumpet
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Usually I'll stand in a newsagents and stare at the assorted glossies for ages without ever seeing a single copy of anything I actually want to buy.
    • When DJ superstars started to invite the glossies round to photograph their homes it became apparent that the cash was beginning to matter more than the music.
    • Printing 22,000 copies in Hindi and 15,000 in Urdu, one of the oldest glossies in India might have finally come of age.
    • Happily we live in a climate where such things are not merely visions glimpsed in the pages of Testino photo-shoots that appear in the fashion glossies.
    • But the women who gleam from the pages of the glossies set up unrealistic and hard-to-sustain goals.
    • We should be comforted by the fact that very few women actually look like the models spread across the glossies, because even the models themselves don't really look like that.
    • And the bi-annual circulation figures published last week show that the top eight women's glossies are all shedding readers.
    • In an attempt to emulate them, millions of people follow this eating fad and that, switching diets as often as the glossies demand.
    • Most jazz magazines are only slightly more readable than airline glossies, and serve roughly the same purpose.
    • Adults have celebrity mags and glossies, but kids don't care about big names.
    • Still, having people from all the glossies and a fair few TV types wanting to come to the party is cool.
    • The 100-page glossy will retail for £3.95 each month and has an initial print run of 20,000.
    • He finally leaves and I start thumbing through the glossies.
    • Airlines have stuffed seatbacks with in-flight glossies for decades, offering articles and news relevant to their routes.
    • Empty takeaway boxes littered the floor alongside discarded empties and the occasional glossy.
    • It was genuinely a really good, fresh take on the glossies.
    • Just like the glossies in which his celebrities appeared, his self-portraits are camouflaged, all blemishes and defects removed.
    • The media's preoccupation with body size runs the gamut from teen magazines to tabloids, the glossies and, yes, even broadsheets which should know better.
    1. 1.1 A photograph printed on glossy paper.
      用有光纸印的照片
      Example sentencesExamples
      • They each ordered a 10x12 glossy, with protective covering and backing for a frame.
      • He slid the color glossy across the black lacquer top to her.
      • My new 8 x 10 glossies came in the mail, and my father was peering at them over my shoulder.
      • Twice that and you'll get wonderful 8x10-inch glossies, suitable for framing.
      • He didn't have an explanation for the smell but he did show Adam his collection of autographed glossies of old wrestlers.
      • Some open with 8X10 glossies of the reporters in addition to the aforementioned letters.
      • They cranked out a bunch of 8x10 glossies that, frankly, surprised me with their quality.
      • The salespeople look like they've stepped out of 8-by-10-inch glossies, but they're friendly.
      • Here she's gridded out around 564 color glossies (all portrait shots) into a long, narrow photo-mosaic.
      • ‘There's two photos!’ exclaimed Charlie, gingerly sliding out the large glossies.
      • She was as motionless as her famous photo glossies, as still as the models at the Wax Museum just down the street.
      • It was a waterfall of black-and-white glossies.
      • High-resolution photo papers in glossy and matte finishes transform family photos into enduring memories.

Derivatives

  • glossily

  • adverb
    • Your troubles momentarily melt away as you become enveloped in the latest saga gripping some glossily imperfect American family.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The new series remains glossily gothic, fast-paced and edgy.
      • As an artwork it's negligible, glossily produced but awkwardly composed and, to my eye, rather silly.
      • It rules the ratings in the TV entertainment business, and has successfully set the agenda for what the cable-connected viewer must consume: glossily mounted shows that hook viewers.
      • Eight glossily painted, two-dimensional wooden horses hinged to one another stretched across the room.
  • glossiness

  • nounˈɡlɒsɪnəs
    • So this film, with all its glossiness, is by far the most fragile and vulnerable work I've done.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He went on to propose that the colors were ‘neutral earth colors’ and that cherry tree gum or gum arabic may be responsible for the glossiness of some of the colors.
      • We are not simply in the business of polishing our own apple through the length of our publications list and the glossiness of our reports.
      • We tend to use very dark chocolate in these recipes, as it gives a wonderful texture and glossiness to cooking sauces.
      • Rinse well and then do a cool to cold rinse to seal the hair's cuticles and ends, adding instant sleekness and glossiness.

Rhymes

bossy, Flossie, flossy, mossy, posse

Definition of glossy in US English:

glossy

adjective
  • 1Shiny and smooth.

    有光泽的,光滑的

    thick, glossy, manageable hair

    浓密,光亮而又易梳理的头发。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This attractive, glossy red apple has some resistance to diseases such as apple scab, cedar apple rust, and fire blight.
    • Laurel makes an attractive alternative with its large, glossy light-reflecting leaves and wide capacity.
    • The leaves may be taking time to change and fall this autumn, but berries are in abundance and attracting birds to their glossy skins and bright colours.
    • I stared into the glossy surface of the orb, looking at my reflection.
    • She pulled the black scrunchie out of her long glossy red-gold hair, the silky strands having been confined in a simple low, sleek ponytail.
    • The result is permanent pin straight hair with super glossy shine.
    • Her glossy black hair shone in the afternoon sun, and her green eyes burned just as ferociously.
    • You'll also need an anti-humectant styling product with silicone to lock in your style and make hair smooth and glossy.
    • Her hair was a glossy black and her eyes were of a pale blue.
    • The crystal pieces are contemporary in style and stylishly presented in glossy white boxes with a turquoise silk ribbon.
    • His hair was a glossy raven black, attractively messy in a way that suggested more time had been spent on it than one would first think.
    • The pointer was already spelling something else, moving eerily across the glossy surface.
    • He was sitting with his legs up on the seat in front of him with the sun shining on his glossy chestnut brown hair.
    • A small green leafed fern sprawled across the opposite corner of the glossy surface.
    • They produce attractive leathery glossy leaves which, depending on species and variety, add colour in winter.
    • I'm not beautiful, I don't have silky smooth, glossy hair and stick thin legs.
    • She was a tall woman, slim and delicate, with a wealth of glossy raven hair.
    • He had big hands on long arms, and his hair was glossy black, gathered in a ponytail, and he looked dangerous.
    • Then she takes a breath and smoothes down her glossy, dark hair.
    Synonyms
    shiny, shining, gleaming, lustrous, bright, brilliant, sparkling, shimmering, glistening, sleek, silky, silken, satiny, sheeny, smooth, glassy
    1. 1.1 (of a magazine or photograph) printed on high-quality smooth shiny paper.
      (杂志或照片)用高质量的有光纸印刷的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Many of them will have bought a glossy guidebook detailing the history, attractions, hotels and nightlife on offer at the resort.
      • She pulled out a set of large scale, glossy photographs and a clean sheet of letter paper.
      • In between times, she continued to paint and write articles for many glossy coffee table publications.
      • Even glossy magazines can be printed on recycled stock now.
      • The paper is glossy, with high-quality reproduction of photographs.
      • He doesn't even go near the pavement booksellers, however attractive their display of paperbacks in glossy covers looked.
      • The photos above it are my own, printed on my home computer/printer on glossy photo paper.
      • This is the sort of thick paper, nicely printed glossy lifestyle magazine that looks nice on your coffee table.
      • The house's beautiful interior was photographed earlier this year for a glossy magazine.
      • The orchid is their darling, the perfect flower for the perfect home as displayed in photographic spreads in glossy magazines all over the world.
      • Selected frames were printed on high quality, glossy photographic paper.
      • However, if the end result is going to be a very glossy coffee table book they may shoot in 5x4 inches or even 10x8 inches.
      • An educated guess would be that the pictures are, indeed, touched up and air-brushed because most photographs in glossy magazines are.
      • Except for the occasional story he got in a glossy magazine, the photographs could be re-sized on a color copier without impacting their usefulness.
      • Printed on glossy paper and lavishly illustrated with photographs and artists' drawings, it cost no less than 50 shillings when published.
      • All these consultants and their public consultations will end up producing shelves and shelves of glossy documents with artist's impressions etc and result in not one single brick being laid.
      • It is a glossy, expensive 22 page long document, liberally illustrated with colour photographs.
      • You've heard of the magalogue - the glossy magazine as shopping catalogue.
      • In fact security would be so tight that they would probably all be refused entry, bar the photographer from a glossy magazine.
      • The pair are believed to have turned down a £1.5m offer for the rights to the wedding photos from a glossy magazine.
  • 2Superficially attractive and stylish, and suggesting wealth or expense.

    (表面上)时髦动人的,富丽堂皇的

    glossy TV miniseries and soaps

    时髦浮华的电视连续剧和肥皂剧。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Better suited to countries where the sky is blue from May to September, they look glossy and glamorous on holiday but out of place back in Blighty.
    • The company has set out to prove once again that it can not only compete with Hollywood at their own game, but create glossy miniseries that feel like feature films.
    • Those roads have attractions of their own but they're too urbanised, glossy, and over-rated for us.
    • The film unfolds in this stupefying, glossy fashion until it gradually finds a pulse.
    • They prefer to market the classics on a more glossy superficial level; the profound conductor and seriously dutiful players are a thing of the past.
    • An expensive box with glossy graphics will not increase your sales.
    • So the sets look glamorous and glossy, yet the lighting creates startling contrasts between light and shadow.
    • More than any other medium, our perception of architecture is increasingly mediated through renders, walkthroughs and glossy artist's impressions.
    • In just a few months a small number of campaigners fought against the expensive and glossy propaganda pushed out by the privateers.
    • Only then do they step into the glossy silver shops for expensive varieties.
    Synonyms
    expensive, high-quality, well produced
noun
informal
  • 1A magazine printed on glossy paper, containing many color photographs and typically devoted to fashion, beauty, celebrities, etc.

    I cared much too much about getting my picture in the glossies
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But the women who gleam from the pages of the glossies set up unrealistic and hard-to-sustain goals.
    • He finally leaves and I start thumbing through the glossies.
    • Just like the glossies in which his celebrities appeared, his self-portraits are camouflaged, all blemishes and defects removed.
    • The media's preoccupation with body size runs the gamut from teen magazines to tabloids, the glossies and, yes, even broadsheets which should know better.
    • Empty takeaway boxes littered the floor alongside discarded empties and the occasional glossy.
    • Adults have celebrity mags and glossies, but kids don't care about big names.
    • Happily we live in a climate where such things are not merely visions glimpsed in the pages of Testino photo-shoots that appear in the fashion glossies.
    • Printing 22,000 copies in Hindi and 15,000 in Urdu, one of the oldest glossies in India might have finally come of age.
    • The 100-page glossy will retail for £3.95 each month and has an initial print run of 20,000.
    • Usually I'll stand in a newsagents and stare at the assorted glossies for ages without ever seeing a single copy of anything I actually want to buy.
    • Still, having people from all the glossies and a fair few TV types wanting to come to the party is cool.
    • And the bi-annual circulation figures published last week show that the top eight women's glossies are all shedding readers.
    • When DJ superstars started to invite the glossies round to photograph their homes it became apparent that the cash was beginning to matter more than the music.
    • Most jazz magazines are only slightly more readable than airline glossies, and serve roughly the same purpose.
    • We should be comforted by the fact that very few women actually look like the models spread across the glossies, because even the models themselves don't really look like that.
    • Airlines have stuffed seatbacks with in-flight glossies for decades, offering articles and news relevant to their routes.
    • It was genuinely a really good, fresh take on the glossies.
    • In an attempt to emulate them, millions of people follow this eating fad and that, switching diets as often as the glossies demand.
    1. 1.1 A photograph printed on glossy paper.
      用有光纸印的照片
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He slid the color glossy across the black lacquer top to her.
      • They each ordered a 10x12 glossy, with protective covering and backing for a frame.
      • ‘There's two photos!’ exclaimed Charlie, gingerly sliding out the large glossies.
      • Some open with 8X10 glossies of the reporters in addition to the aforementioned letters.
      • Here she's gridded out around 564 color glossies (all portrait shots) into a long, narrow photo-mosaic.
      • It was a waterfall of black-and-white glossies.
      • The salespeople look like they've stepped out of 8-by-10-inch glossies, but they're friendly.
      • My new 8 x 10 glossies came in the mail, and my father was peering at them over my shoulder.
      • Twice that and you'll get wonderful 8x10-inch glossies, suitable for framing.
      • He didn't have an explanation for the smell but he did show Adam his collection of autographed glossies of old wrestlers.
      • They cranked out a bunch of 8x10 glossies that, frankly, surprised me with their quality.
      • She was as motionless as her famous photo glossies, as still as the models at the Wax Museum just down the street.
      • High-resolution photo papers in glossy and matte finishes transform family photos into enduring memories.
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