Glosses Synonyms and Antonyms

An alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. notes
  2. veneers
  3. shows
  4. commentaries
  5. colors
  6. annotations
  7. glossaries
  8. footnotes
  9. veils
  10. semblances
  11. masquerades
  12. polishes
  13. masks
  14. fronts
  15. pretenses
  16. faces
  17. enamels
  18. disguises
  19. covers
  20. comments
  21. cloaks
  22. sheens
  23. pretexts
  24. guises
  25. translations
  26. colorings
The property of being smooth and shiny
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. polishes
  2. burnishes
  3. shines
  4. shimmers
  5. sheens
  6. gleams
Give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. whitewashes
  2. colors
  3. veneers
  4. varnishes
  5. sugarcoats
  6. gilds
An explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. rubrics
To give a gleaming luster to, usually through friction
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. shines
  2. polishes
  3. glazes
  4. furbishes
  5. burnishes
  6. buffs
Provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. annotates
  2. comments
Conceal truth
(Verb)
Antonyms:
  1. explains
  2. overemphasizes
  3. reveals
  4. exaggerates
Make shiny
(Verb)
Antonyms:
  1. dulls
Define
(Verb)
Antonyms:
  1. misinforms

Glosses Sentence Examples

  • It may be only a series of disconnected glosses on Onkelos.

  • Thus he was able often to recover the meaning of a passage which had long been buried under a heap of contradictory glosses, and he founded a school in which sobriety and common sense were added to the industry and ingenuity of former commentators.

  • The text of Ibelin became a textus receptus - but it also became overlaid by glosses, for it was used as authoritative in the kingdom of Cyprus after the loss of the kingdom of Jerusalem, and it needed expounding.

  • The real germs of Realism and Nominalism are to be found in the 9th century, in scattered commentaries and glosses upon the statements of Porphyry and Boetius.

  • The collected works of Hrabanus himself contain nothing new, but in some glosses on Aristotle and Porphyry, first exhumed by Cousin, there are several noteworthy expressions of opinion in a Nominalistic sense.

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