Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Made of silk; silken.
- adjective Resembling silk; smooth or lustrous.
- adjective Covered with or characterized by fine soft hairs or feathers.
- adjective Pleasantly agreeable, as to the ear.
- adjective Suave or ingratiating.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
- noun The silk-fowl: the more usual name in America.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; silken; silklike.
- adjective Hence, soft and smooth.
- adjective Covered with soft hairs pressed close to the surface, as a leaf; sericeous.
- adjective (Bot.) a lofty Australian tree (
Grevillea robusta ) with silky tomentose lobed or incised leaves. It furnishes a valuable timber.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Similar in
appearance ortexture (especially insoftness andsmoothness ) tosilk .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light
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Examples
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To me, Evans is the epitome of what I consider smooth jazz, smooth as in silky and luminous.
A Progressive on the Prairie » Midweek Music Moment: Bill Evans » Print 2009
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To me, Evans is the epitome of what I consider smooth jazz, smooth as in silky and luminous.
Midweek Music Moment: Bill Evans « A Progressive on the Prairie 2009
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HAIR ON HAIR Carolina Herrera's catwalk models wore clips covered in silky hair securing their ponytails.
The beauty bible Eva Wiseman 2010
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Catherine towered over me with her slender height, her sallow hair falling in silky ringlets over her dull cheeks, and when she spoke her voice rang sharp where mine would have growled with hoarseness.
The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century 1900
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A tad thinner, lighter, and "silky" - er feeling in the hand compared to the iPhone, Nexus One also sports a less cheap, more rubbery back.
The iPhone Blog 2009
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HILL: I know you're thinking it doesn't really look like a chicken, it's actually a bird known as a silky rooster, quite the head of hair there, feathers, whatever they maybe be.
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HILL: I know you're thinking it doesn't really look like a chicken, it's actually a bird known as a silky rooster, quite the head of hair there, feathers, whatever they maybe be.
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I reared several birds from the white Silk-hen by the Spanish cock: all were coal-black, and all plainly showed their parentage in having blackish combs and bones; none inherited the so-called silky feathers, and the non-inheritance of this character has been observed by others.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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What connoisseurs call silky, the squeamish call slimy.
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What connoisseurs call silky, the squeamish call slimy.
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