Word Meanings - PSEUDO-METALLIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Falsely or imperfectly metallic; -- said of a kind of luster, as in minerals.

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• METALLIC
  Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive. Metallic iron, iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic
• METALLICLY
  In a metallic manner; by metallic means.
• METALLICAL
  See METALLIC
• LUSTER
  One who lusts.
• LUSTERING
  1. The act or process of imparting a luster, as to pottery. 2. The brightening of a metal in the crucible when it becomes pure, as in certain refining processes.
• LUSTERLESS; LUSTRELESS
  Destitute of luster; dim; dull.
• FALSELY
  In a false manner; erroneously; not truly; perfidiously or treacherously. "O falsely, falsely murdered." Shak. Oppositions of science, falsely so called. 1 Tim. vi. 20. Will ye steal, murder . . . and swear falsely Jer. vii. 9.
• LUSTER; LUSTRE
  A period of five years; a lustrum. Both of us have closed the tenth luster. Bolingbroke.
• MONOMETALLIC
  Consisting of one metal; of or pertaining to monometallism.
• CLUSTERY
  Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters. Johnson.
• BIMETALLIC
  Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency.
• LACKLUSTER; LACKLUSTRE
  A want of luster. -- a.
• BLUSTERINGLY
  In a blustering manner.
• OUTLUSTER; OUTLUSTRE
  To excel in brightness or luster. Shak.
• BLUSTEROUS
  Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering. Motley.
• BALUSTERED
  Having balusters. Dryden.
• FLUSTERATION
  The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered; fluster.
• PSEUDO-METALLIC
  Falsely or imperfectly metallic; -- said of a kind of luster, as in minerals.
• SUBMETALLIC
  Imperfectly metallic; as, a submetallic luster.
• CLUSTER
  1. A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch. Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes, Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine. Spenser. 2. A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous;
• NONMETALLIC
  Resembling, or possessing the properties of, a nonmetal or metalloid; as, sulphur is a nonmetallic element. (more info) 1. Not metallic.