Synonyms for gloss
glɒs, glɔsgloss

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1. glossnoun

   Synonyms:
   polish, luster, misinterpretation, distortion, perversion, twist, plea, pretense, speciousness

   Antonyms:
   nebulousness, haze, literalness, truth, representation, interpretation, reality, verity, glow

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1. gloss, rubricnoun

   an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text

   Synonyms:
   burnish, semblance, rubric, statute title, colour, title, glossiness, polish, color, glossary

2. glossary, glossnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   burnish, semblance, rubric, colour, glossiness, polish, color, glossary

3. polish, gloss, glossiness, burnishnoun

   the property of being smooth and shiny

   Synonyms:
   burnish, culture, semblance, rubric, colour, glossiness, cultivation, polish, color, finish, refinement, glossary

4. semblance, gloss, color, colourverb

   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"; "the situation soon took on a different color"

   Synonyms:
   coloring, colouring, illusion, coloring material, polish, glossary, people of colour, vividness, colour, colouring material, color, glossiness, semblance, likeness, coloration, colouration, rubric, burnish, people of color

5. glossverb

   give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing

   Synonyms:
   colour, annotate, color, comment

6. gloss, comment, annotateverb

   provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases

   "He annotated on what his teacher had written"

   Synonyms:
   comment, color, remark, footnote, colour, annotate, notice, point out

7. glossverb

   provide an interlinear translation of a word or phrase

   Synonyms:
   colour, annotate, color, comment

8. color, colour, glossverb

   give a deceptive explanation or excuse for

   "color a lie"

   Synonyms:
   color in, comment, colorize, emblazon, annotate, color, colour, colorise, discolor, tinge, colourise, colourize, discolour, colour in, distort

Matched Categories

1. • Interpret
   • Polish
   • Shine
   • Smoothness
   • Translate

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1. glossnoun

   Synonyms:
   comment, note, explanation, interpretation, scholium, annotation, commentary

2. glossnoun

   Synonyms:
   pretext, pretence, specious plea

3. glossnoun

   Synonyms:
   lustre, polish, shining surface

4. glossverb

   Synonyms:
   comment, make notes, make explanatory remarks

5. glossverb

   Synonyms:
   varnish, make lustrous

6. glossverb

   Synonyms:
   extenuate, palliate, color, apologize for, gloss over

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1. glossnoun

   Synonyms:
   luster, polish, sheen, glaze, enamel, show, pretense, commentary, note, annotation, comment, postil

2. glossverb

   Synonyms:
   annotate, comment, illustrate, glaze, polish, palliate, extenuate, gloss over

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1. List of paraphrases for "gloss":

   brilliant, glossy, brightness, bright, satin, chandelier, lustre, high-gloss, shining, shiny, varnish, luster

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1. Hillary Clinton:

   All of us want a safe community, so we should be smart enough how we can provide that safety without intentionally or unintentionally targeting a particular group of Americans, and what is so, really, troubling, is that if you compare statistics between white men and African American men, if they are stopped, if they are arrested, if they are charged, if they are convicted, if they are sentenced, there are clear undeniable racial disparities. I think we have to admit this. We shouldn't try to gloss it over or it would go away.

2. Desiderius Erasmus:

   Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

3. Friedrich Nietzsche:

   Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.

4. Melissa Jacobs:

   They just sort of gloss over things to make it seem as if everybody is this wonderful, altruistic person.

5. Amanda Gorman:

   In my poem, I’m not going to in any way gloss over what we’ve seen over the past few weeks and, dare I say, the past few years. But what I really aspire to do in the poem is to be able to use my words to envision a way in which our country can still come together and can still heal. It’s doing that in a way that is not erasing or neglecting the harsh truths I think America needs to reconcile with.