Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having a pearly luster or gloss.
Wiktionary
- adj. pearl-like, either in color or luster.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having an iridescent pearl-like surface, giving a play of lustrous rainbowlike colors; nacreous; pearlaceous.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having a play of lustrous rainbow colors
Etymologies
- C 1935 pearl + -escent (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Finished in pearlescent white with titanium finished accents.”
“Da-lite cinema contour 144 x 192-in pearlescent … …. $500usd”
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“The fastest growth, says Freedonia, will be in the special-effect pigments, which provide eye-catching effects such as pearlescent or luminescent patterns, or colors that change with the angle of viewing.”
“Thankfully, for this latest model, ASUS has opted for a more subdued white finish (or 'pearlescent', it says here).”
“She wore the same golden glow as the rest of the room, her black hair haloed, her skin pearlescent.”
“There, the galaxy glowed with a pearlescent beauty.”
“The serpent coils, and for the first time I see its tail, the large rattles pearlescent.”
“The mosaic of shells on the walls and roof burned pearlescent and fiery in the sunset.”
“She liked to take them out of the glass case and show the little pearlescent cups to me, turn them over in her hand.”
“Tables were covered in peacock-blue linens, and accessorized with silver charger plates and napkins that held pearlescent menus, which complemented either of two centerpieces.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pearlescent’.
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Words beginning with P
peripatetic, pearlescent, perfunctory, palliate, permafrost, prosthetic, pliant, pluvious, percussion, procrastinate, progeria, prognathism and 49 more...
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Words descriptive of the colour of th...
sloe, hyaline, dull, turquoise, slate, snotgreen, ultramarine, glaucous, murky, ashen, wine-dark, claret and 32 more...
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Pretty Words
Words that sound pretty.
ethereal, ephemeral, iridescent, shimmer, wisp, whisper, charisma, crescent, azure, mystery, fantasy, miracle and 142 more...
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Chennessy's Words
philistine, messianic, dyad, cult, bourgeois, blot, ploy, polyglot, lingua franca, cumbersome, lumber, petit-bourgeois and 446 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 887 more...
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words
diplopic, dolorous, farrago, surety, scuttlebutt, Arabesque, infarct, neurasthenia, lambent, expurge, univocal, simper and 395 more...
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dirtysnowflake's Words
snowflake, parisian, couture, mystery, ruby, clandestine, corset, october, list, touch, caress, aboulia and 156 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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White
cream, vanilla, pearlescent, ivory, shell, coconut, eggshell, beige, magnolia, snow
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fragile/lovely words
incandescent, scintillating, sublime, stellar, fragile, bones, illuminate, luscious, celestial, crepuscular, penumbra, wanderlust and 111 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, P
pellucid, pertain, pampas, prate, pinecone, philistine, pantocrator, papaverine, postmeridian, potlatch, pharology, pinniped and 622 more...
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adamantine, almond, alpenglow, amaranth, amaranthine, amaretto, amarelle, amethyst, anacampserote, ampersand, andromeda, anemone and 153 more...
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P
pearlescent, perfidy, periphrasis, peristalsis, peristyle, phonestheme, phosphene, pleonasm, plump for, portmanteau, prelapsarian, prolix and 52 more...
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words s a t e l l i t e likes
paraphernalia, smorgasbord, mamihlapinatapei, prudence, clavicle, entwine, penance, panacea, lilting, scoff, nuance, slur and 43 more...
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Jheti's Words
ordinarily, diacritic, intrinsic, coalesce, salient, valence, crenellations, expurgate, relapse, disconsolate, matriculation, corrugated and 128 more...
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artsy
bohemian, acrylic, watercolor, brush, baroque, gothic, rococo, chiaroscuro, sfumato, encaustic, muse, starving and 44 more...
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