SILKLIKE

Meaning of SILKLIKE in English

adjective see: silk

Merriam Webster. Explanatory English dictionary Merriam Webster. Толковый словарь английского языка Мерриам-Уэбстер. 2012

SILKLIKE — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ adjective : resembling silk in softness, fineness, or luster
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SILKLIKE — see silk I
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SILKEN — I. ˈsilkən, ˈsiu̇k- adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Old English seolcen, from seolc silk + -en 1. : made of …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SILKY — (superl.) Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; silken; silklike; as, a silky luster.
Английский словарь Webster
SILKEN — (v. t.) To render silken or silklike.
Английский словарь Webster
SERICEOUS — (a.) Having a silklike luster, usually due to fine, close hairs.
Английский словарь Webster
SILKY — ( superl. ) Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; silken; silklike; as, a silky luster.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SILKEN — ( v. t. ) To render silken or silklike.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SERICEOUS — ( a. ) Having a silklike luster, usually due to fine, close hairs.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SPINNING — — spinningly , adv. /spin"ing/ , n. 1. Textiles. a. the act or process of converting staple or short lengths …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SILK — — silklike , adj. /silk/ , n. 1. the soft, lustrous fiber obtained as a filament from the cocoon of …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
QIANA — /kee ah"neuh/ , Trademark. a brand of lightweight, lustrous, silklike, synthetic fiber chemically classed as nylon.
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SILKY — superl hence, soft and smooth; as, silky wine. 2. silky ·superl covered with soft hairs pressed close to the surface, …
Webster English vocab
SILKEN — adj dressed in silk. 2. silken ·vt to render silken or silklike. 3. silken ·adj fig.: soft; delicate; tender; smooth; …
Webster English vocab
SERICEOUS — adj of or pertaining to silk; consisting of silk; silky. 2. sericeous ·adj having a silklike luster, usually due to …
Webster English vocab
WATER SCAVENGER BEETLE — any of the approximately 2,000 species of the predominately aquatic insect family Hydrophilidae (order Coleoptera). These beetles are found swimming …
Britannica English vocabulary
URTICALES — nettle order of dicotyledonous flowering plants, the largest order in the subclass Hamamelidae. The order includes a diversity of plant …
Britannica English vocabulary
TAFFETA — n. a fine lustrous silk or silklike fabric. [ME f. OF taffetas or med.L taffata, ult. f. Pers. tafta past …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
TAFFETA — n. a fine lustrous silk or silklike fabric. [ ME f. OF taffetas or med.L taffata, ult. f. Pers. tafta …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SILK — n. 1 a fine strong soft lustrous fibre produced by silkworms in making cocoons. 2 a similar fibre spun by …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
TAFFETA — n. a fine lustrous silk or silklike fabric. Etymology: ME f. OF taffetas or med.L taffata, ult. f. Pers. tafta …
Oxford English vocab
SILK — n.1 a fine strong soft lustrous fibre produced by silkworms in making cocoons. 2 a similar fibre spun by some …
Oxford English vocab
VELVETY — Synonyms and related words : attenuate, attenuated, buffed, burnished, cottony, dainty, delicate, downy, feathery, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained, finespun, finished, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SILKY — Synonyms and related words : attenuate, attenuated, buffed, burnished, capillary, cirrose, cirrous, cottony, dainty, deferential, delicate, disarming, downy, fibered, fibroid, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SILKEN — Synonyms and related words : buffed, burnished, cottony, deferential, disarming, finished, furbished, glace, glassy, glazed, gleaming, glossy, insinuating, insinuative, lacquered, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SATINY — Synonyms and related words : attenuate, attenuated, buffed, burnished, cottony, dainty, delicate, downy, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained, finespun, finished, fluffy, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
PLUSH — Synonyms and related words : Babylonian, Corinthian, awe-inspiring, awful, barbaric, blubber, breeze, butter, classy, clay, costly, cottony, cushion, deluxe, dough, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SILKY — adj. silken, silklike, delicate, sleek, soft, smooth, satiny, shiny, glossy, lustrous, Technical sericeous Her long, silky black hair hung below …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab

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