Gloss

Quick meaning: Gloss is a noun meaning A surface shine or luster.

Meaning

A surface shine or luster.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.
2. (transitive) To give a gloss or sheen to.
3. (transitive) To make (something) attractive by deception
4. (intransitive) To become shiny.
5. (countable) Synonym of glossary, a collection of such notes.
6. (transitive, idiomatic) Used in a phrasal verb: gloss over (“to cover up a mistake or crime, to treat something with less care than it deserves”).
7. (countable) A brief explanatory note or translation of a foreign, archaic, technical, difficult, complex, or uncommon expression, inserted after the original, in the margin of a document, or between lines of a text.

Example Sentences

Judicial Gloss on Test [section title]

You have the art to gloss the foulest cause.

All this, without a gloss or comment, / He would unriddle in a moment.

To me more dear, congenial to my heart, / One native charm than all the gloss of art.

Word Forms

• glosses
• glossing
• glossed

Synonyms for gloss

Depending on context, synonyms include brilliance, gleam, luster, sheen, shine, front.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include glossiness, burnish, color, rubric, comment, polish.

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