glossyadj/ˈɡlɒsi/

• 1

  Having a smooth, silklike, reflective (shiny) surface.

  • glossy hair
  • glossy magazine
• 2

  Attention-grabbing and superficially attractive.

  • The trendy rehabs being pimped by the addiction industry's glossy PR.
  • This divisive populist electro may never shake its myriad detractors who cry foul about the glossy repackaging of the scene it’s largely indebted to, but it’s wrong to dismiss such meticulously crafted production because of its accessibility.

glossynoun/ˈɡlɒsi/

• 1

  informalA glossy magazine.

  • The supermarket glossies are full of celebrity gossip and fad diets.
• 2

  informalA glossy photograph.

  • His roster of patients was drawn almost exclusively from among what he liked to call creative people, chiefly writers and painters and composers, and he talked about them so freely that I sometimes half expected him to put up autographed glossies around the office, like the ones on the wall at the Stage Deli.
  • Black and white 8- × 10-inch glossies are best, but 5- × 7-inch is okay too. Place photos on top of cardboard when mailing. Don't tape or paper-clip because doing so can ruin the photo.
• 3

  informalbroadcastingfilmmediaA film depicting people with glamorous lifestyles.

  • Anna Magnani has been making Hollywood glossies recently, so it was good to see her back again in a native Italian production, The Last Temptation, in which with great artistry and all her usual power she played a Nun who finds a woman's and even a mother's heart beating strongly beneath her 'sister's' habit.
  • […] the first home-made guide to TV films by which is meant old films shown on the box, not those new Hollywood glossies made specially for it (though a guide there too would soon be welcome).