glossyadjective
uk/ˈɡlɒs.i/us/ˈɡlɑː.si/smooth and shiny:
She has wonderfully glossy hair.
a dog with a glossy coat
A glossy book or magazine has been produced on shiny and expensive paper and contains many colour pictures:
a glossy coffee-table book
a pile of glossy magazines/car brochures
looking attractive, but often not having serious value or quality:
This magazine is full of glossy advertisements for aftershave.
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The qualities of light
- ablaze
- backlit
- brilliant
- coruscating
- flicker
- floodlit
- fluorescent
- gleaming
- glittering
- glittery
- incandescent
- lambent
- luminescent
- lustrous
- opalescent
- polychromatic
- shine
- spangly
- sparkling
- torchlight
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Newspapers & magazines
Books: kinds of books
Attractive
Costing little or no money
glossily
adverb uk/ˈɡlɒs.əl.i/us/ˈɡlɑː.səl.i/
Her hair shone glossily.
glossiness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈɡlɒs.i.nəs/us/ˈɡlɑː.si.nəs/
glossynoun [ C ]
uk/ˈɡlɒs.i/us/ˈɡlɑː.si/a glossy magazine
US a photograph printed on smooth shiny paper
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Photography
- airbrush
- aperture
- camera
- camera obscura
- camera-shy
- capture
- high-resolution
- hologram
- holography
- kinetoscope
- lo-res
- negative
- say cheese idiom
- selfie
- sharp
- shoot
- shutter
- slide
- SLR camera
- snapshot
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