Thesaurus results for LOOKING GLASS

looking glass

noun

Definition of looking glass

as in mirror

a smooth or polished surface that forms images by reflection always remember that the image is reversed in the looking glass

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Recent Examples of looking glass Television functions, for him, as a looking glass through which we are enticed, the better to savor the strangeness of beings infinitely odder, if more resilient, than Humpty Dumpty. — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 May 2026 On one lamp in the studio, tentacles hold up cylindrical copper spires with submarine-style looking glasses to reveal a small bulb inside. — Christopher Buchanan, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026 With a luxe-looking glass bottle and the performance of a much more expensive product, this serum feels worth the cost at full-price—and shoppers say a little goes a long way. — Melanie Fincher, Southern Living, 10 Feb. 2026 Carroll’s Victorian era story told of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole (and, in the second novel, goes through a looking glass) to land in a fantastical and nonsensical world of talking and human-like animals. — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 11 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for looking glass

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mirror

Noun

Reflections create a mirror effect against the dark interior, so early visitors believed that the exhibit was empty.

— Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Aug. 2026
Highlighted for its modular construction to ease servicing and new mirror-like livery, it was originally intended to succeed SpaceShipTwo.

— Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 13 Aug. 2026