Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Containing or coated with silver.
- adj. Resembling silver in color or luster: "A fountain threw high its silvery water” ( Harriet Beecher Stowe).
- adj. Having a clear, softly resonant sound: a silvery laugh.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Besprinkled, covered with, or containing silver.
- Having the qualities, or some of the qualities, of silver. Especially— Having the lustrous whiteness of silver.
- Having a soft and musical sound, as that attributed to silver bells
- In zoology, of a silvery color; shining-white or hoary; frosted; pruinose.
- In botany, bluish-white or gray with a metallic luster.
Wiktionary
- adj. Resembling silver in color, shiny white.
- adj. Sprinkled or covered with silver.
- adj. Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Resembling, or having the luster of, silver; grayish white and lustrous; of a mild luster; bright.
- adj. Besprinkled or covered with silver.
- adj. Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having the white lustrous sheen of silver
- adj. of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver
- adj. resembling or reminiscent of silver
Etymologies
- silver + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The front windscreen glazed over, bringing his HUD into clear focus, with temperature, hydraulics, electronics and remaining fuel shown in silvery bars.”
“It was very sentimental: 2,000 of us listened to pop songs rather than singing hymns, and the gadgetry that Heselden loved was used to project his chunky face in silvery light on the factory wall of his company, Hesco Bastion.”
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“I mean, what would you expect when an eight foot saurian biped in silvery vacuum armor suddenly appears in the middle of the United Nations Security Council?”
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“I will blame anything and everything I can for the gray hair which a friend suggested I call silvery since it sounds less old and more pretty.”
“A fairy in short, silvery skirts rode by on two horses.”
“IN front of Molly, the path, deep in silvery orchard grass, wound through the pasture to the witch-hazel thicket at Jordan's Journey; and when she entered the shelter of the trees, Gay came, whistling, toward her from the direction of the Poplar Spring.”
“In the white noon they shine in silvery splendor, every needle and cell in bole and branch thrilling and tingling with ardent life; and the whole landscape glows with consciousness, like the face of a god.”
“Her teeth were genuine and she cultivated what society novelists term silvery peals of laughter.”
“A coloratura whose light, lyric voice was often described as silvery or crystalline, Mrs. Alarie-Simoneau was known for her dynamic stage presence and refined musical interpretations.”
“The downslope was covered in short silvery white grass.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘silvery’.
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Silver
Silvery words. (Mithril doesn't count.)
lessilver, silver, ladysilver, loadsilver, silvery, silversmith, silverwork, silverware, ale-silver, quicksilver, aver-silver, besilver and 242 more...
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Metallics
Words that relate to or describe metals.
malleable, ductile, shiny, steely, brassy, dull, golden, precious, smelt, smith, tensile, clink and 39 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,
In a Sieve they went to...sieve, winter, morn, stormy, round, drowned, cried, aloud, button, fig, sea, far and 113 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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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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arby's words
me default
shirty, kerfuffle, tenterhooks, susurrus, palimpsest, crimson, rufous, cicatrix, crepuscular, carapace, quaff, exanimate and 239 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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✿
adamantine, almond, alpenglow, amaranth, amaranthine, amaretto, amarelle, amethyst, anacampserote, ampersand, andromeda, anemone and 153 more...
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Words I like to say:
thicket, mojave, lorelei, silvery, ringlet, shimmer, autumn, charming, chilly, lipid, patina, adore and 43 more...
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Fire & Life
eloquent, sumptuous, opulent, ripple, beautiful, ballet, music, Europa, ethereal, precious, sunset, inhale and 17 more...
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pecane's list
nice barnie shore last least mist cannonize sharpwitz frogs you been dandy lusty gray peter tangible earthy down mangoe bitter north yikes mighty bitten dwarf landing gorge george thatcher
deodorant, touched, beep, shatter, matched, seldom, sovreign, sordid, memories, beacon, melted, silvery and 5 more...
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you write such pretty words
words that are pretty.
sparkle, shimmer, haze, sunlight, starlight, mist, illuminate, ocean, sunrise, sunset, serendipity, orchard and 84 more...
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arianell's Words
soporific, palimpsest, unwittingly, byzantine, coquettish, gilded, pomegranate, languorous, wary, esoteric, emerald, schooner and 23 more...
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