Banerjee and Pedersen (2002) note that this is a significant limitation because dictionary glosses tend to be fairly short and they fail to provide sufficient information to make fine grained distinctions required for WSD.
banerjee and Pedersen (2003) introduce a measure that takes as input two WordNet synsets and returns a numeric value that quantifies their degree of semantic relatedness by taking into consideration the glosses of related WordNet synsets as well.