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iridescent
[ ir-i-des-uhnt ]
adjective
- displaying a play of lustrous colors like those of the rainbow.
noun
- an iridescent cloth, material, or other substance:
new fall dresses of imported iridescents.
iridescent
/ ˌɪrɪˈdɛsənt /
adjective
- 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
- iri·descent·ly adverb
- nonir·i·descent adjective
- nonir·i·descent·ly adverb
- unir·i·descent adjective
- unir·i·descent·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of iridescent1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of iridescent1
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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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