silky
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
silky
adj 1: having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light;
"glossy auburn hair"; "satiny gardenia petals"; "sleek
black fur"; "silken eyelashes"; "silky skin"; "a silklike
fabric"; "slick seals and otters" [syn: {satiny},
{sleek}, {silken}, {silky}, {silklike}, {slick}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Silky \Silk"y\, a. [Compar. {Silkier}; superl. {Silkiest}.]
1. Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk;
silken; silklike; as, a silky luster.
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2. Hence, soft and smooth; as, silky wine.
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3. Covered with soft hairs pressed close to the surface, as a
leaf; sericeous.
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{Silky oak} (Bot.), a lofty Australian tree ({Grevillea
robusta}) with silky tomentose lobed or incised leaves. It
furnishes a valuable timber.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
76 Moby Thesaurus words for "silky":
attenuate, attenuated, buffed, burnished, capillary, cirrose,
cirrous, cottony, dainty, deferential, delicate, disarming, downy,
fibered, fibroid, fibrous, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained,
finespun, finished, flagelliform, flossy, fluffy, funicular,
furbished, fuzzy, gauzy, glace, glassy, glazed, gleaming, glossy,
gossamer, gossamery, hairlike, hairy, insinuating, insinuative,
lacquered, ligamental, lustrous, plush, plushy, polished,
pubescent, refined, ropy, rubbed, saccharine, satin, satinlike,
satiny, sericeous, shellacked, shiny, silken, silklike, sleek,
slick, smooth, soft, soft as silk, stringy, taeniate, taeniform,
thin-spun, threadlike, thready, varnished, velutinous, velvetlike,
velvety, wiredrawn, wiry
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