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silky
English
Etymology
From Middle English sylky, equivalent to silk +? -y.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?lki/
- Rhymes: -?lki
Adjective
silky (comparative silkier, superlative silkiest)
- Similar in appearance or texture (especially in softness and smoothness) to silk.
- cloth with a silky lustre
- silky hair
- Smooth and pleasant; seductive.
- a silky wine
- a silky voice
- silky skills
- (botany) Covered in long, slender, glistening hairs pressed close to the surface; sericeous.
Derived terms
- silky oak
- silky soft
Translations
Noun
silky (plural silkies)
- Alternative spelling of silkie
References
- silky in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “silky” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)
Anagrams
- Kisly
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diaphanous
English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin diaphanus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (diaphan?s) ('To appear/shine through '; 'dia' - through + 'phaino' - to appear).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /da??æf.?n.?s/
Adjective
diaphanous (comparative more diaphanous, superlative most diaphanous)
- Transparent or translucent; allowing light to pass through; capable of being seen through.
- 2004, Gustave Flaubert, Margaret Maulden (translator), Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners, page 98,
- The evening mist, drifting among the leafless poplars, veiled their silhouettes with a violet film, paler and more translucent than the most diaphanous gauze that might have caught in their branches.
- 2004, Gustave Flaubert, Margaret Maulden (translator), Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners, page 98,
- Of a fine, almost transparent, texture; gossamer; light and insubstantial.
- 1951, Robert Frost, Unpublished preface to a collection, 2007, Mark Richardson (editor), The Collected Prose of Robert Frost, page 169,
- The most diaphanous wings carry a burden of pollen from flower to flower.
- 1963, Hermann Weyl, quoted in 1985, Floyd Merrell, Deconstruction Reframed, page 67,
- What is amazing is that "a concept that is created by mind itself, the sequence of integers, the simplest and most diaphanous thing for the constructive mind, assumes a similar aspect of obscurity and deficiency when viewed from the axiomatic angle" (Weyl, 1963, 220).
- 1951, Robert Frost, Unpublished preface to a collection, 2007, Mark Richardson (editor), The Collected Prose of Robert Frost, page 169,
- (physics) Isorefractive, having an identical refractive index.
Synonyms
- (allowing light to pass through): translucent, transparent, see-through, sheer
- (of a fine, almost transparent, texture): delicate, insubstantial, sheer
Antonyms
- (transparent or translucent): opaque
- (of a fine, almost transparent, texture): concrete, solid
Related terms
- diaphanously
- diaphanousness
Translations
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