Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Containing or exhibiting colors like those of the rainbow.
- Having an iris: used in composition: as, large-irised eyes.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having colors like those of the rainbow; iridescent.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having colors like those of the rainbow; iridescent.
Examples
“When the azure blossom of the day dies in irised splendors, rosy clouds float up over the horizon's edge like wandering fairy islands drifting at will in a golden world – vanishing when the moon appears.”
“Alizome did not see any communications hardware, but a moment later, the door irised open.”
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“When he swung left, the portal irised wide, allowing him to step from bland thoroughfare to a humming cathedral of lights and ducts and towering Heisenberg compensators.”
“The door irised shut behind him, leaving another similar door—also closed for the moment—as his only protection from dying in the airless cold of space.”
“Finally the hatch irised open and I dropped out into that cool silent blackness, with nothing left between me and the hum.”
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“The outer doors irised out of their way, and she dragged the Doctor to a clear space on the floor.”
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“He looked, with grave attention, for some time, and all the while the levelled eyes, wide, round, golden-irised and fierce as a hawk's, stared back unwaveringly into his.”
“The door to God†™ s house irised open and he stepped through.”
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“Agent 13†™ s goggles irised open wide to light the area he was going to cut.”
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“Auto-irised/auto-focused videos can get you decent results, but not broadcast quality. bored324”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘irised’.
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
taramea, tawings, tchicks, timider, tirades, tirings, towings, trailed, trailer, trained, trainee, trainer and 2373 more...
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Of Rainbows
Words relating to rainbows and iridescent phenomena.
weathergall, sundog, brede, iridescence, irised, pavonine, iridocyte, nacreosity, opalesce, opalescence, opalesque
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Roy G. Biv
Things that are rainbow or have to do with rainbows.
I don't know why it's taken me this long to make this list, actually. I'm obsessed with rainbows. I don't go a day without wearing ...mukunga-mbura, gay pride, the rainbow fish, the rainbow conne..., rainbow lorikeet, somewhere over th..., rainbow bee-eater, supernumerary rai..., rainbow coalition, rainbow orchid, rainbow quartz, rainbow bridge and 11 more...
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elsabet From the OED:
(a.) Having the colours of the rainbow; coloured by a rainbow.
1880 Scribner's Mag. July 347
Bathing from time to time in waftings of irised spray.
Jun 28, 2007