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# glassy

«glassy» in Mova's school dictionary: **smooth, shiny and clear, like glass** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (glassy, glassier, glassiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Glassy means smooth, shiny and clear, like glass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glassy/#m1)

2) Glassy eyes look blank and without expression, often because of tiredness, illness or being upset. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glassy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In descriptive writing: a glassy lake, a glassy stare; in science, glassy rocks like obsidian; in stories, a character's glassy eyes show shock or sleepiness.

### examples

- The lake was glassy and still in the morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glassy/#x1)
- Obsidian is a glassy black rock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glassy/#x2)
- His eyes went glassy with tiredness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glassy/#x3)
- The sea was glassy calm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glassy/#x4)
- She stared at us with a glassy look. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glassy/#x5)
- He looked out upon the glassy sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glassy/#x6)

### note

Comparatives: glassier, glassiest (y → i). Glassy water is calm with no waves.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «glassy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glassy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.