gloss

gloss is a 5-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Brightness or luster of a body proceeding from a smooth surface; polish; as, the gloss of silk; cloth is calendered to give it a gloss. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Brightness or luster of a body proceeding from a smooth surface; polish; as, the gloss of silk; cloth is calendered to give it a gloss.
2. noun. A specious appearance; superficial quality or show.
3. transitive verb. To give a superficial luster or gloss to; to make smooth and shining; as, to gloss cloth.
4. noun. A foreign, archaic, technical, or other uncommon word requiring explanation.
5. noun. An interpretation, consisting of one or more words, interlinear or marginal; an explanatory note or comment; a running commentary.
6. noun. A false or specious explanation.
7. transitive verb. To render clear and evident by comments; to illustrate; to explain; to annotate.
8. transitive verb. To give a specious appearance to; to render specious and plausible; to palliate by specious explanation.
9. intransitive verb. To make comments; to comment; to explain.
10. intransitive verb. To make sly remarks, or insinuations.
11. plural. of Glossa
12. noun. an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading

    "he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity"

    "he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction"

    Synonyms: color, colour, semblance

13. noun. the property of being smooth and shiny

    Synonyms: burnish, glossiness, polish

14. noun. an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field

    Synonyms: glossary

15. noun. an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text

    Synonyms: rubric

16. verb. give a deceptive explanation or excuse for

    "color a lie"

    Synonyms: color, colour

17. verb. provide an interlinear translation of a word or phrase
18. verb. provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases

    "He annotated on what his teacher had written"

    Synonyms: annotate, comment

19. verb. give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing

Synonyms

color, colour, semblance, burnish, glossiness, polish, glossary, rubric, annotate, comment

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in gloss:

slogs

Common word forms

glos, glossal, glossed, glosser, glosses, glossing, glossless

Words from these letters

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