Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Covered with dense, soft, silky hairs.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Resembling velvet; velvety; soft. Specifically In botany, having a hairy surface which in texture resembles that of velvet, as in
Rochea coccinea .
Wiktionary
- adj. Having a layer of soft short hairs, like velvet.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Bot.) Having the surface covered with a fine and dense silky pubescence; velvety.
Etymologies
- From New Latin velūtīnus, from Medieval Latin velūtum, velvet, from Vulgar Latin *villūtus; see velvet. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The tea menu is a tiny piece of delight, with descriptions that blithely use words like "velutinous" and "viridescent" and "vegetal" to describe their oolongs and whites and blacks.”
“Shelby had been saving up words for this:velutinous, sybaritic, hedonic, effulgent .”
“Fine texture and weight on the palate though, with well knit, supple, velutinous tannins.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘velutinous’.
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phrontistery-v
from phrontistery.info
vaccary, vaccimulgence, vaccine, vacillate, vadelect, vade-mecum, vadimony, vadose, vafrous, vagient, vagile, vagility and 396 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Favorite Words
Fun words that are interesting and arresting.
Ort, unctuous, panoply, defenestrate, palpable, ubiquitous, flagellate, serendipitous, epiphanic, constructivist, amuse bouche, sobriquet and 30 more...
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New words
Words that are new to me.
autostrada, gimlet, clyster, gravida, skelped, nacreous, susurrus, intransigent, puissant, turbid, plangent, fungible and 99 more...
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quiet words
warm and soft words to drink with tea
reticent, taciturn, sequester, quiescent, ensconce, haimish, velutinous, diffident, innocuous, ubiquitous
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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Wild About Hairy
Hairy words. Much pilfered from G. Cook's Hairy list.
woolly, whiskered, villous, unshorn, unshaven, tufted, stubbly, shaggy, pubescent, pilose, piligerous, piliferous and 58 more...
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the dog's bark
woof...
grammaticaster, bunfight, lucubratory, tittuppy, smithereens, debonair, limpet, rivulet, palaver, turd, galligaskins, pluvious and 5 more...
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good words if used sparingly
Words that I don't want to forget, but that require caution in their use.
velleity, fealty, peripetia, bellwether, commonweal, imponderable, solipsism, soubrette, timbre, effulgent, placate, deplorable and 56 more...
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John Banville And His Quest To Frustr...
'Oh yeah. My books must be an absolute nightmare to translate.' - Banville
'Brandishing Roget's apotropaic caduceus, Banville's prose is flocculent and positively crepitant with memory's...flocculent, cinereal, crepitant, velutinous, paean, inutile, ovine, cracaleured, ichor
Tweets
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rolig Lovely word, Yarb! And a great quote! May 11, 2009
madmouth it rhymes with glutinous cunt May 11, 2009
yarb ...I would really live what I had dreamed of; tongue a tender ear; a velutinous cunt, kiss and compose with one mouth, in the same breath...
- William Gass, The Tunnel May 11, 2009