Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Resembling silk; lustrous. See Synonyms at sleek.
- adj. Made of silk; silken.
- adj. Covered with or characterized by fine soft hairs or feathers: a silky chick.
- adj. Ingratiating; seductive: spoke with silky plausibility.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having the qualities or properties of silk, as smoothness and luster; sericeous.
- Same as silken.
- In botany, covered with long, very slender, close-pressed, glistening hairs; sericeous.
- Smooth to the taste.
- n. The silk-fowl: the more usual name in America.
Wiktionary
- adj. Similar in appearance or texture (especially in softness and smoothness) to silk.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; silken; silklike.
- adj. Hence, soft and smooth.
- adj. Covered with soft hairs pressed close to the surface, as a leaf; sericeous.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light
Examples
“HAIR ON HAIR Carolina Herrera's catwalk models wore clips covered in silky hair securing their ponytails.”
“To me, Evans is the epitome of what I consider smooth jazz, smooth as in silky and luminous.”
Midweek Music Moment: Bill Evans « A Progressive on the Prairie
“Catherine towered over me with her slender height, her sallow hair falling in silky ringlets over her dull cheeks, and when she spoke her voice rang sharp where mine would have growled with hoarseness.”
The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
“A tad thinner, lighter, and "silky" - er feeling in the hand compared to the iPhone, Nexus One also sports a less cheap, more rubbery back.”
“HILL: I know you're thinking it doesn't really look like a chicken, it's actually a bird known as a silky rooster, quite the head of hair there, feathers, whatever they maybe be.”
“I reared several birds from the white Silk-hen by the Spanish cock: all were coal-black, and all plainly showed their parentage in having blackish combs and bones; none inherited the so-called silky feathers, and the non-inheritance of this character has been observed by others.”
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.
“What connoisseurs call silky, the squeamish call slimy.”
“It's smooth and silky (can peanut butter be described as silky?) and thanks to the fine work of pastry chef”
“Her pipes have been described as silky, sultry, soulful, and lots of other adjectives beginning with "s.”
“The taste Think bright red fruits (cranberries, cherries, and raspberries), earthy undertones and a signature "silky" mouth feel from the grape's light tannins.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘silky’.
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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, ...
acetic, acidic, aged, angular, appley, astringent, attractive, austere, berrylike, big, bitter, brawny and 511 more...
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Beautiful and Ugly
Beautiful, attractive, well-formed
Ugly, unattractive, malformedadorable, alluring, angelic, appealing, appetizing, attractive, beaming, beauteous, beautiful, becoming, beguiling, bewitching and 180 more...
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Weftage
The many textures of touch.
smooth, warty, velvety, sleek, grainy, shaggy, abrasive, scratchy, bumpy, corded, ribbed, roughish and 95 more...
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Y
What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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textures
rocky, smooth, slimy, bumpy, sharp, silky, grainy, flaky, ridged, rugged, cracked
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kimo2000's Words
pakalolo, miliated, voodoo, vindaloo, hacienda, acquiesce, addlepated, olio, akimbo, apropos, oogenesis, arugula and 181 more...
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curligirli0's Words
crapulous, swish, shiatsu, zen, xenoglossy, nincompoop, loquacious, pianissimo, onomatopoeia, imperturbable, silky, hosanas and 379 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Jacqueline's Words
glittery, horny, amazing, wanderlust, forlorn, lustily, nonchalant, cool, passive, submissive, roundabout, carousel and 558 more...
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Words That Are Sexy To My Ears
coloratura, chiaroscuro, leather, cognac, pulse, luscious, auburn, tawny, sibylline, murmur, delicious, musk and 107 more...
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How I feel about you:
The sound of my name spoken by your lips... I need a word for that.
love, lust, secret, honey, milky, touch, flesh, skin, neptune, kiss, wet, taste and 82 more...
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Sexy words
Sexy words
lick, suck, moan, smooth, silky, groan, skin, lips, cock, breasts, ass, back and 36 more...
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Words I learned & loved in Gemmology
chatoyancy, amygdaloidal, birefraction, conchoidal, luster, adamantine, crystalline, euhedral, subhedral, anhedral, cabochon, culet and 69 more...
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