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Glassy vs Vitric - What's the difference?

glassy | vitric |

As adjectives the difference between glassy and vitric

is that glassy is of or like glass, in particular smooth and (somewhat) reflective while vitric is glassy; vitreous.

As a noun glassy

is glass marble.

glassy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Of or like glass, in particular smooth and (somewhat) reflective.
  • Dull, expressionless
    • ''Glassy eyes suggest a broken spirit
  • (surfing, of water, not comparable) Lacking any chop; smooth and mostly flat.

    • Derived terms

    * glassily * glassiness

    Noun

    (glassies)
  • (Ulster) glass marble

    • Alternative forms

    * glasser

    vitric

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • glassy; vitreous
  • *{{quote-journal, 2000, date=May 12, Leo Gabunia et al., Earliest Pleistocene Hominid Cranial Remains from Dmanisi, Republic of Georgia: Taxonomy, Geological Setting, and Age, Science citation
    • , passage=This flow overlies fossil vertebrate-bearing volcaniclastic sediments that include a grayish-black vitric tuff that may be correlative with the unit A1 tuff at Dmanisi. }}