silvery
See also: silver Y
English
Etymology
From Middle English silvery, sylvyry; equivalent to silver + -y.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɪlvəɹi/, /ˈsɪlvɹi/
Audio (UK) (file)
Adjective
silvery (comparative silverier, superlative silveriest)
- Resembling silver in color, shiny white.
- 1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, OCLC 1033416756:
- OF all th' enamell'd race, whose silvery wing / Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring.
- 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 98:
- Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows feeding unconcernedly for the most part, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight.
- 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:
- Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.
- Sprinkled or covered with silver.
- Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound.
- a silvery laugh
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, OCLC 1167497017:
- The hand grasped the curtain, and drew it aside, and as it did so I heard a voice, I think the softest and yet most silvery voice I ever heard.
Synonyms
- silvern (archaic)
Derived terms
Derived terms
- silvery acacia
- silvery flying fox (Pteropus melanopogon)
- silvery gade
- silvery gibbon (Hylobates moloch)
- silvery gull
- silvery-haired
- silvery hair-grass (Aira caryophyllea)
- silvery hair-tail
- silvery honeysuckle (Grevillea striata)
- silvery oak (Grevillea robusta)
- silvery pout (Gadiculus argenteus)
- silvery salmon
- silvery shrew mole
- silvery-tongued
Translations
resembling silver
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clear and musical in tone
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Anagrams
- slivery