Word Meanings - SILKEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; as, silken cloth; a silken veil. 2. Fig.: Soft; delicate; tender; smooth; as, silken language. "Silken terms precise." Shak. 3. Dressed in silk. "A . . . silken wanton." Shak.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SILKEN)
- Glassy
- Vitreous
- smooth
- polished
- glacial
- glabrous
- brittle
- transparent
- crystalline
- pellucid
- limpid
- glossy
- silken
- Slick
- Glossy
- velvety
- satin
- shiny
Related words: (words related to SILKEN)
- BRITTLELY
In a brittle manner. Sherwood. - SMOOTHEN
To make smooth. - SATIN WEAVE
A style of weaving producing smooth-faced fabric in which the warp interlaces with the filling at points distributed over the surface. - SATINETTE
One of a breed of fancy frilled pigeons allied to the owls and turbits, having the body white, the shoulders tricolored, and the tail bluish black with a large white spot on each feather. - SMOOTHNESS
Quality or state of being smooth. - TRANSPARENT
transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent - GLACIALIST
One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers. - POLISHMENT
The act of polishing, or the state of being polished. - SLICKENS
The pulverized matter from a quartz mill, or the lighter soil of hydraulic mines. - PELLUCIDITY; PELLUCIDNESS
The quality or state of being pellucid; transparency; translucency; clearness; as, the pellucidity of the air. Locke. - SMOOTH-CHINNED
Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton. - PELLUCIDLY
In a pellucid manner. - SMOOTHLY
In a smooth manner. - GLABROUS
Smooth; having a surface without hairs or any unevenness. - POLISHED
Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse. - LIMPIDNESS
Quality of being limpid; limpidity. - BRITTLE STAR
Any species of ophiuran starfishes. See Ophiuroidea. - LIMPID
Characterized by clearness or transparency; clear; as, a limpid stream. Springs which were clear, fresh, and limpid. Woodward. Syn. -- Clear; transparent; pellucid; lucid; pure; crystal; translucent; bright. - SATINY
Like or composed of satin; glossy; as, to have a satiny appearance; a satiny texture. - SATIN
A silk cloth, of a thick, close texture, and overshot woof, which has a glossy surface. Cloths of gold and satins rich of hue. Chaucer. Denmark satin, a kind of lasting; a stout worsted stuff, woven with a satin twill, used for women's shoes. -- - SEMICRYSTALLINE
Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter. - REPOLISH
To polish again. - HYPOCRYSTALLINE
Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass. - MICROCRYSTALLINE
Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline. - SUNSHINY
1. Bright with the rays of the sun; clear, warm, or pleasant; as, a sunshiny day. 2. Bright like the sun; resplendent. Flashing beams of that sunshiny shield. Spenser. 3. Beaming with good spirits; cheerful. "Her sunshiny face." Spenser. - PHANEROCRYSTALLINE
Distinctly crystalline; -- used of rocks. Opposed to Ant: cryptocrystalline. - DEPOLISHING
The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight.