Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Containing or resembling copper; having any quality of copper: as, a coppery solution; a coppery taste.
Wiktionary
- adj. Resembling the metal copper, especially in color.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of something having the color of copper
Etymologies
- copper + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Ginny was half a block away, her voluptuous bottom sheathed in coppery velvet.”
“My hair is like an almost blonde almost brown kind of coppery color and when it gets wet its basically black.”
“One of them is a bitter or "coppery" taste in the mouth, notably in the early morning.”
“The type of fear that radiates through your guts and leaves a coppery taste in your mouth that no mouthwash shall ever make clean.”
“His smooth skin was coppery, his blue-black hair a shimmering curtain around his shoulders.”
“He lifted his head, searching for the smell of coppery blood.”
“The lurid coppery glow had vanished, and the sky thickened and lowered until the darkness was as that of a late twilight.”
“It was larger than the first and more coppery in hue.”
“More blood wine, some ready and tasting of alcohol, other bottles unfinished and familiar in their coppery flavor.”
“A coppery swell of my own blood pooled in my mouth.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘coppery’.
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CULI - wine-tasting adjectives
In this area of expertise nouns are frequently used as adjectives (almond, bacon, cider, diesel, fennel, fresh-cut hay, wool) or new adjectives are formed (appley, berrylike, citrusy, full-bodied, ...
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color (red)
tiara's color lists rebuilt :)
( visual, colors, red, descriptive, randomness )red, Red, Pink, Cloud, Salmon, Rose, Coral(Pink/Red/Dark), Cramoisy/Modena/C..., Raspberry, Rubious/Ruby, Tomato, Sanguineous/Blood and 483 more...
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Words from books I've read
These are some words I didn't know when I read and now I want to know!
mortgage, fiddling, rage, kick, stroke, dodge, hunch, scratch, covetous, rank, trickle, budget and 179 more...
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The Jumblies
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all their friends could say,
On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
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Some Words I Love to Use
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danallison's Words
polysemy, self-reliance, savor, amenities, vintage, proverbial, colloquial, assemblage, ubiquitous, jocular, prosaic, perambulation and 443 more...
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Bird Wirds: Adjectives
Adjectives used in actual (non-taxonomic) bird names, past and present.
roseate, glossy, whooping, neotropic, pelagic, ferruginous, crested, whiskered, marbled, tufted, horned, eared and 818 more...
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Color adjectives
A complement to Chromonyms and Chromonyms 2, which are restricted to nouns that have appeared in at least one dictionary. If a word can be either a noun or an adjective, I list it as a noun. This l...
hyacinthine, griseous, glaucous, verdant, virescent, amaranthine, miniaceous, rubiginous, ferruginous, ruddy, caesious, cyanotic and 214 more...
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Words in "Bird by Bird" That I Don't ...
The Book is "Bird by Bird" by Anne Lamott. (Great book!)
stroboscopic, primal, spiny, blenny, effectual, jocular, wayward, estimable, luxuriate, gelatinous, bedlam, sophomoric and 45 more...
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stevebrullecheckitout
diurnal, furlough, half-life, hourglass, hazard, chintz, palaver, sylvan, staid, curt, winsome, adroit and 52 more...
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Great Color Names
obsidian, vermillion, cardinal, ultramarine, chartreuse, puce, taupe, sable, slate, cerise, garnet, mauve and 88 more...
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