Silky

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Similar in appearance or texture (especially in softness and smoothness) to silk.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • The 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light
  • Equivalent
    bright   
    Cross Reference
    ingratiating    smooth    soft    downy    silky monkey    silky fracture    silky oak   
    Variant
    silkier    silkiest   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    silken    silklike    sericeous   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Willkie    milky   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    silken    curly    velvety    glossy    fluffy    reddish    tawny    filmy    lustrous    downy