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say it: GLAS-ee
glassy is an adjective meaning "resembling glass in smoothness and shininess and slickness". It carries 3 recorded senses.
resembling glass in smoothness and shininess and slickness
“the glassy surface of the lake”
“the pavement was...glassy with water”
(of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it
“glazed pottery”
“glassy porcelain”
“hard vitreous china used for plumbing fixtures”
ceramics
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for glassy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.