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glasnosty

glasnosty adjective: resembling or characteristic of glasnost.

Adjective

glasnosty (comparative more glasnosty, superlative most glasnosty)

  1. (informal, rare) Resembling or characteristic of glasnost.
    • I'm delighted to report that this is one glasnosty improvement that has taken hold in the American fashion trade as well.1988 October, Spy, page 141
    • The echolalia of a glasnosty, unBritish, shout: 'Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!'1998, John Henderson, Fighting for Rome: Poets and Caesars, History and Civil War, page 107

Forms of glasnosty

comparativemore glasnosty
superlativemost glasnosty

Origin of glasnosty

From glasnost + -y.

Questions about glasnosty

What does glasnosty mean?
Glasnosty means resembling or characteristic of glasnost.
What part of speech is glasnosty?
Glasnosty is an adjective.

Words near glasnosty in the dictionary

  1. Glasnevin
  2. glasnost
  3. glasnostian
  4. glasnostic
  5. glasnosts
  6. glasnosty
  7. Glasper
  8. Glaspers
  9. glasphalt
  10. Glaspie
  11. glass

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