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iridescent

[ ir-i-des-uhnt ]

adjective

  1. displaying a play of lustrous colors like those of the rainbow.


noun

  1. an iridescent cloth, material, or other substance:

    new fall dresses of imported iridescents.

iridescent

/ ˌɪrɪˈdɛsənt /

adjective

  1. displaying a spectrum of colours that shimmer and change due to interference and scattering as the observer's position changes


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Derived Forms

  • ˌiriˈdescence, noun
  • ˌiriˈdescently, adverb

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Other Words From

  • iri·descent·ly adverb
  • nonir·i·descent adjective
  • nonir·i·descent·ly adverb
  • unir·i·descent adjective
  • unir·i·descent·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of iridescent1

First recorded in 1790–1800; irid- + -escent

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Word History and Origins

Origin of iridescent1

C18: from irido- + -escent

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Example Sentences

New York in the 1920s was iridescent, and its boom was spontaneous.

Or on an iridescent gold and green suit detailed with iridescent green mirco-paillettes.

I describe the pink hued iridescent bubbles in the bathtub, and the way they glide away from my skin as if it's made of silk.

It was paired with a sweater designed like an exaggerated version of a V-neck made in an iridescent knit.

Iridescent colors came in combinations of deep reds, purples, golds, and greens.

In the clear light of a window at the woman's back, her hair, with a groundwork of crimson, was overshot with iridescent lights.

People were walking about in purple and gold togas; on the house-tops were pigeons whose throats shone like iridescent beads.

Through the sea haze Mitylene shines out like an iridescent bubble of light.

He asked if I would dine with him some evening at the "Iridescent," and I said it was not a time for dining at restaurants.

Then comes a ball to which I shall wear a frock all little fluttering iridescent draperies, suggesting an airy hummingbird.

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