Silvery

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Besprinkled, covered with, or containing silver.
  • Having the qualities, or some of the qualities, 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • 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
  • Equivalent
    bright    neutral    achromatic    euphonous    euphonious   
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    bright   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    golden    metallic    bluish    luminous    crimson    shiny    translucent    icy    ghostly    silky