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 By barely making it home in time and losing what appeared to be an expensive-looking glass slipper in the process. — Lincee Ray, Entertainment Weekly, 25 June 2026 Has Clark gone through a looking glass that’s going to lead him to a deliverance? — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 May 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for looking glass

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mirror

Noun

Other key elements include roll-in showers with grab bars and handheld shower wands; raised toilet seats with grab bars; lowered light switches, thermostats, and mirrors; and wheelchair-accessible bathroom sinks.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2026
The breakthrough underpins modern drug development, because mirror-image versions of the same molecule can behave differently in the body — and can even produce different smells.

— Adithi Ramakrishnan, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026