gloss

Meaning

Noun

1. A surface shine or luster.
2. A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.

Verb

1. To give a gloss or sheen to.
2. To make (something) attractive by deception
3. To become shiny.
4. Used in a phrasal verb: gloss over (“to cover up a mistake or crime, to treat something with less care than it deserves”).

Verb

To add a gloss to (a text).

Synonyms

polish

🇵🇱

shine

comment

luster

lustre

glaze

exposition

commentary

explanation

annotate

glossiness

burnish

color

annotation

interpretation

colour

varnish

coat

🧥

sheen

glossary

account

brightness

cover up

description

excuse

explain

expound

furbish

gloze

lustrousness

notation

rubric

semblance

luster

lustre

explanatory notes

explicate

explication

cover

spread on

finish

formulate

side notes

gild

construe

conceal

complexion

glow

stress

interpret

comment on

kneading

light

buff

brilliance

short commentary

normalize

make shine

note

ornament

overlay

paint

plate

plea

articulate

pretense

pretext

qualifying

read

📖

rede

insert glosses in

lip gloss

adorn

accounting

shiner

shiny

sleek

sleekness

smear

smooth

smoothen

smoothness

softness

splendour

tempering

account for

veneer

walk-through

wax

definition

descant

window dressing

disguise

dissemble

dress

👗

elucidation

embellishment

enamel

commentation

construal

criticism

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡlɒs/

Etymology

Probably from a North Germanic language, compare Icelandic glossi (“spark, flame”), glossa (“to flame”); or perhaps from dialectal Dutch gloos (“a glow, flare”), related to West Frisian gloeze (“a glow”), Middle Low German glȫsen (“to smoulder, glow”), German glosen (“to smoulder”); ultimately from Proto-Germanic *glus- (“to glow, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰel- (“to flourish; be green or yellow”). More at glow.