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Glossy vs Ultraglossy - What's the difference?

glossy | ultraglossy |

As adjectives the difference between glossy and ultraglossy

is that glossy is having a smooth, silklike, reflective surface while ultraglossy is extremely glossy.

As a noun glossy

is a glossy magazine.

glossy

English

(wikipedia glossy)

Adjective

(er)
  • Having a smooth, silklike, reflective surface.

    • Antonyms

    * matte

    Noun

    (glossies)
  • (chiefly, British, informal) a glossy magazine
    • The supermarket glossies are full of celebrity gossip and fad diets.

    ultraglossy

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Extremely glossy.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 22, author=Horacio Silva, title=Love Child, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=A few minutes later, as Grand, nursing an incipient cold, walked me through the contents of the debut issue of Love, it was clear she was taking a less whimsical, more rough-hewn approach to contemporary glamour than she had at the playfully self-deprecating but ultraglossy Pop. }}