Definition for Gloss:

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Synonyms for Gloss:

• n.

  •
  • borax,
  • foam,
  • abrasive,
  • cleanser,
  • disinfectant,
  • cleaner,
  • bleach.
  •
  • blanket,
  • skin,
  • membrane,
  • annotation,
  • paint,
  • plate,
  • commentary,
  • surface,
  • layer,
  • note,
  • translation.
  •
  • explain,
  • define,
  • clarify,
  • interpret,
  • luster,
  • sheen,
  • sleekness,
  • shine,
  • light,
  • illustrate.
  •
  • front,
  • mask,
  • wrap,
  • guise,
  • masquerade,
  • veneer,
  • bury,
  • put on,
  • cover,
  • face,
  • disguise,
  • pretense,
  • show,
  • Disguisement,
  • cloak,
  • insulate,
  • window dressing,
  • crown,
  • veil,
  • pretext,
  • false colors,
  • top,
  • smother,
  • recover.
  •
  • clarification,
  • principle,
  • instruction,
  • argument,
  • outline,
  • palliate,
  • explanation,
  • theory,
  • extenuate,
  • interpretation,
  • whitewash.
  •
  • coiffed,
  • bushy,
  • bristly,
  • bedhead,
  • bald,
  • balding,
  • close-cropped,
  • bouffant,
  • body.
  •
  • creosote,
  • distemper,
  • coat,
  • paintbrush,
  • grout.
  •annotation (noun)
  • exegesis,
  • glossary,
  • definition,
  • explication,
  • observation,
  • illustration.
  •coat (noun)
  • layer,
  • tinge,
  • coating,
  • Whitewashing,
  • wash.
  •communication (noun)
  • rubric.
  •covering (noun)
  • coat.
  •enamel (noun)
  • topcoat,
  • enamel,
  • japan.
  •gloss (noun)
  • elucidation,
  • luster,
  • rubric,
  • facade,
  • front,
  • veneer,
  • glossary,
  • explanation,
  • comment,
  • glaze,
  • colour,
  • finish,
  • annotation,
  • appearance,
  • gleam,
  • surface,
  • brilliance,
  • footnote,
  • slickness,
  • annotate,
  • color,
  • brightness,
  • burnish,
  • interpretation,
  • sleekness,
  • shimmer,
  • commentary,
  • varnish,
  • glossiness,
  • translation,
  • silkiness,
  • glint,
  • note,
  • polish.
  •gloss over (noun)
  • disguise,
  • conceal,
  • camouflage,
  • hide,
  • smooth over,
  • veil,
  • cover up,
  • whitewash,
  • mask,
  • evade.
  •sheen (noun)
  • shininess.
  •shine (noun)
  • gleam,
  • shimmer.

• v.

  •annotate (verb)
  • define,
  • expound,
  • commentate,
  • remark,
  • illustrate.
  •buff (verb)
  • scour,
  • smooth.
  •burnish (verb)
  • wax,
  • patina,
  • sheen.
  •gloss (verb)
  • disguise,
  • rub,
  • deacon,
  • translate,
  • camouflage,
  • justify,
  • hide,
  • glance,
  • lacquer,
  • white,
  • extenuate,
  • furbish,
  • doctor,
  • smooth over,
  • veil,
  • whiten,
  • belie,
  • mask,
  • annotate,
  • palliate,
  • whitewash,
  • elucidate,
  • shine,
  • falsify,
  • misrepresent,
  • construe,
  • interpret,
  • explain,
  • rationalize,
  • cover up,
  • buff,
  • sugarcoat.
  •smooth (verb)
  • smooth,
  • silken,
  • level,
  • polish,
  • burnish,
  • slick,
  • plane,
  • grind,
  • even,
  • sand,
  • flatten,
  • glaze.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • definition,
  • interpretative,
  • exegesis,
  • undercoat,
  • creosote,
  • illumination,
  • explanatory,
  • sealant,
  • instruction,
  • clarification,
  • sleekness,
  • interpretation,
  • exposition,
  • interpretive,
  • translate,
  • window dressing,
  • enamel,
  • Disguisement,
  • enlightenment,
  • false colors,
  • grout,
  • translation.
  •
  • sealer,
  • masquerade,
  • wallpaper,
  • principle,
  • sugarcoat,
  • define,
  • theory,
  • guise,
  • explanation,
  • stripper,
  • distemper,
  • buff,
  • topcoat,
  • pretense.
  •
  • gild,
  • whitewash,
  • furbish,
  • coat,
  • argument,
  • veneer,
  • Gloze,
  • disguise.
  •
  • front,
  • pretext,
  • cloak,
  • outline,
  • sleek,
  • shine.
  •
  • luster,
  • spread.
  •
  • put on,
  • mask,
  • veil.
  •
  • face.
  •color
  • fresco.
  •shine
  • sheen.
  •smooth
  • sand.
  •Other relevant words:
  • flush,
  • brightness,
  • apology,
  • Candescence,
  • exegesis,
  • statute title,
  • honorable,
  • radiance,
  • furbish,
  • color in,
  • hide behind,
  • screen,
  • recover,
  • glitter,
  • fakery,
  • cultured,
  • tint,
  • allegation,
  • front,
  • immaturity,
  • patina,
  • softened,
  • pale,
  • cheating,
  • dissimulation,
  • culture,
  • blink,
  • radiancy,
  • foam,
  • pervert,
  • Commentation,
  • conceal,
  • slap on,
  • decoding,
  • masquerade,
  • delusion,
  • sheen,
  • device,
  • false front,
  • glimmer,
  • cleanser,
  • annotation,
  • brilliance,
  • lie,
  • veneer,
  • commentary,
  • colorize,
  • semblance,
  • tender,
  • emblazon,
  • speciousness,
  • shine,
  • colouring,
  • elucidate,
  • remark upon,
  • coloring,
  • evade,
  • quiet,
  • Misteach,
  • slickness,
  • construe,
  • Scholium,
  • Gloze,
  • hue,
  • wax,
  • interlinear,
  • thesaurus,
  • likeness,
  • key,
  • deduction,
  • falsity,
  • vivid,
  • iridescent,
  • excuse,
  • pretext,
  • palliate,
  • mystify,
  • bushy,
  • Shoaliness,
  • clean,
  • crib,
  • engild,
  • sparkle,
  • extenuative,
  • mask,
  • eggshell,
  • qualification,
  • remark,
  • calcimine,
  • parget,
  • sleekness,
  • expounding,
  • misrepresent,
  • interpretive,
  • soft-hued,
  • etymological dictionary,
  • blanket,
  • top,
  • disinfectant,
  • sober,
  • subterfuge,
  • vindication,
  • sugarcoat,
  • magnificence,
  • polish up,
  • critique,
  • vividness,
  • creosote,
  • acting,
  • coiffed,
  • paper over,
  • glazed,
  • representation,
  • instruction,
  • definition,
  • covering,
  • mislead,
  • Dilucidation,
  • extenuate,
  • twist,
  • good looks,
  • onomasticon,
  • bedhead,
  • misquote,
  • squeeze,
  • allowance,
  • sad,
  • pinprick,
  • misconstruction,
  • pigment,
  • criticism,
  • besmear,
  • brush up,
  • perversion,
  • elude,
  • newness,
  • disguise,
  • interpret,
  • shade,
  • error,
  • humbug,
  • posing,
  • sublimity,
  • bleach,
  • refulgence,
  • stain,
  • wash,
  • delicate,
  • luminous,
  • define,
  • torturing,
  • hermeneutics,
  • sleek,
  • fraud,
  • gazetteer,
  • facade,
  • illumination,
  • soften,
  • misconceive,
  • misrepresentation,
  • falsify,
  • point out,
  • cover,
  • illustrate,
  • phrase book,
  • stalking-horse,
  • Trigness,
  • luminousness,
  • slant,
  • finish,
  • pastel,
  • youth,
  • shadow,
  • obiter dictum,
  • round,
  • false show,
  • simulation,
  • lubrication,
  • colourise,
  • pulchritude,
  • wordbook,
  • burnish,
  • simulacrum,
  • deception,
  • distort,
  • cultivate,
  • belie,
  • coloration,
  • tincture,
  • feint,
  • guise,
  • expound,
  • grace,
  • Misdeem,
  • wrenching,
  • warp,
  • leader,
  • glottis,
  • translate,
  • Gradus,
  • courtly,
  • distortion,
  • four-flushing,
  • false appearance,
  • posture,
  • split hairs,
  • memo,
  • notice,
  • pose,
  • veil,
  • round off,
  • slightness,
  • bristly,
  • critical review,
  • face,
  • effulgence,
  • interpretative,
  • invention,
  • dress up,
  • Colour In,
  • review,
  • false pretense,
  • patinaed,
  • Nomenclator,
  • splendour,
  • observation,
  • pretense,
  • desk dictionary,
  • cook,
  • superficies,
  • lustre,
  • subdued,
  • brilliant,
  • semigloss,
  • rubric,
  • window dressing,
  • Humbuggery,
  • footnote,
  • body,
  • symmetry,
  • edit,
  • sealant,
  • sweet,
  • report,
  • brilliancy,
  • flat,
  • shimmer,
  • Disguisement,
  • name,
  • distemper,
  • colour,
  • respectable,
  • misapprehension,
  • whitewash,
  • criticize,
  • comment upon,
  • blind,
  • playacting,
  • elucidation,
  • plea,
  • paint,
  • smother,
  • light,
  • bedaub,
  • fudge,
  • paintbrush,
  • contort,
  • novelty,
  • nacreous,
  • editorial,
  • biographical dictionary,
  • garble,
  • smoothness,
  • mistake,
  • principle,
  • misconception,
  • incandescence,
  • vocabulary,
  • eisegesis,
  • shining light,
  • Malobservation,
  • analysis,
  • slick down,
  • explanatory,
  • illuminate,
  • justify,
  • seeming,
  • sombre,
  • Whitewashing,
  • wallpaper,
  • commentate,
  • mistranslate,
  • imbue,
  • glossary,
  • membrane,
  • elegant,
  • smooth over,
  • layer,
  • misjudge,
  • synonymy,
  • crown,
  • refinement,
  • gilding,
  • skylight,
  • gleam,
  • remit,
  • stipple,
  • surface,
  • prime,
  • spread with,
  • translation,
  • subtle,
  • dip,
  • squeezing,
  • wrench,
  • note,
  • protestation,
  • Miscolor,
  • topcoat,
  • Misintelligence,
  • sealer,
  • argument,
  • magnificent,
  • analyse,
  • annotate,
  • rendering,
  • Miscite,
  • air glow,
  • afterglow,
  • hide,
  • Clavis,
  • genteel,
  • feigning,
  • theory,
  • misinterpret,
  • handle,
  • skin,
  • cover up,
  • running commentary,
  • overstate,
  • shellac,
  • smoke screen,
  • gilt,
  • misreading,
  • silkiness,
  • insulate,
  • Sublimification,
  • trick,
  • strain,
  • appearance,
  • lay on,
  • outline,
  • embellish,
  • slang dictionary,
  • specialized dictionary,
  • trick out,
  • amplification,
  • glassy,
  • Misexplanation,
  • cloak,
  • coating,
  • epidermis,
  • enlightenment,
  • doctor,
  • Lubricity,
  • explication,
  • bouffant,
  • honest,
  • colouration,
  • spread,
  • deodorize,
  • deacon,
  • palliation,
  • Misreport,
  • rewording,
  • fairness,
  • camouflage,
  • Blague,
  • bedizen,
  • flicker,
  • poor excuse,
  • lick,
  • gloss over,
  • paraphrase,
  • forgive,
  • false colors,
  • misapply,
  • exaggeration,
  • Misexpound,
  • plate,
  • notation,
  • put on,
  • shimmering,
  • Cursoriness,
  • Outstretch,
  • discolor,
  • bald,
  • dissembling,
  • grout,
  • comeliness,
  • stratagem,
  • misread,
  • sham,
  • smear on,
  • rind,
  • spectacular,
  • exemplification,
  • meretriciousness,
  • pearly,
  • glance,
  • cultivation,
  • misquotation,
  • colourize,
  • refuge,
  • apologize,
  • soft pedal,
  • cavil,
  • catachresis,
  • dictionary,
  • touch up,
  • dazzle,
  • tinge,
  • balding,
  • mince,
  • abrasive,
  • alibi,
  • buff,
  • exaggerate,
  • comment on,
  • show,
  • illume,
  • cleaner,
  • titivate,
  • misstate,
  • slather,
  • pretension,
  • apologise,
  • colorise,
  • scratch,
  • understate,
  • undercoat,
  • explanation,
  • japan,
  • opalescent,
  • explicate,
  • horse,
  • splendor,
  • dye,
  • exposition,
  • soft,
  • bright,
  • refine,
  • polished,
  • lustrous,
  • lacquer,
  • Miscitation,
  • equivocate,
  • whiten,
  • gorgeousness,
  • simple,
  • Misexposition,
  • misunderstand,
  • interpretation,
  • daub,
  • bluff,
  • Exteriority,
  • discolour,
  • unabridged dictionary,
  • luminance,
  • chatoyant,
  • glossiness,
  • Advocation,
  • glow,
  • white,
  • wrap,
  • salvo,
  • dab,
  • Bluffing,
  • borax,
  • forgery,
  • refined,
  • transcription,
  • smokescreen,
  • subtilize,
  • deep-dye,
  • extenuating circumstances,
  • inference,
  • butter,
  • luster,
  • torture,
  • Dissemblance,
  • enamel,
  • color,
  • shiny,
  • Metaphrase,
  • misconstrue,
  • luminosity,
  • deform,
  • Misrender,
  • mitigation,
  • bloom,
  • reputable,
  • somber,
  • softening,
  • glint,
  • varnish,
  • embroider,
  • triviality,
  • transliteration,
  • smear,
  • locus standi,
  • contorting,
  • palliative,
  • shininess,
  • Garbling,
  • tone,
  • misapplication,
  • rendition,
  • fabrication,
  • Marginalia,
  • shallowness,
  • extenuation,
  • conversion,
  • Misjudgment,
  • bolster up,
  • restatement,
  • superficiality,
  • complexion,
  • misunderstanding,
  • stripper,
  • rhyming dictionary,
  • clarification,
  • coat,
  • grain,
  • cover story,
  • attitudinizing,
  • recency,
  • affectation,
  • treasury of words,
  • put a good face on,
  • spread on,
  • close-cropped,
  • mistranslation,
  • ostentation,
  • comment,
  • misapprehend,
  • imposture,
  • clarify,
  • fresco,
  • faking,
  • Misexplication,
  • trot,
  • suggestio falsi,
  • twisting,
  • misstatement,
  • creamy,
  • illusion,
  • rationalize,
  • illustration,
  • lexicon,
  • decipherment,
  • pony,
  • bury,
  • misinterpretation,
  • good,
  • begild,
  • ingrain,
  • scour,
  • gild,
  • tinct,
  • brighten,
  • slur,
  • mellow,
  • sunny,
  • quibble,
  • down,
  • rub,
  • glossy,
  • Eclaircissement,
  • mother-of-pearl,
  • decontamination,
  • write up,
  • tar,
  • falsification,
  • title,
  • expository,
  • get wrong.

Antonyms for Gloss:

• n.

  • annotation
    blank.
  • gloss
    dullness, misinformation.
  • Other antonyms:
    grayness, dullness, somberness, gloom, obscureness, dimness, obscurity, drabness, dirtiness, murkiness, dinginess, cloudiness, paleness, flatness.

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    clear up, cloudiness, dimness, dinginess, dirtiness, disclose, drabness, dull, dullness, exaggerate, explain, expose, gloom, grayness, misinform, misinformation, murkiness, obscureness, obscurity, open, reveal, rough, rough up, roughen, ruffle, scuff, show, somberness, strip, uncover, unmask, scuff up.

• v.

  • burnish
    tarnish.
  • gloss
    dull, explain, clear up, reveal, misinform.