silky
of or like silk; smooth, lustrous, soft, or delicate: silky skin.
Botany. covered with fine, soft, closely set hairs, as a leaf.
Origin of silky
1Other words from silky
- silk·i·ly, adverb
- silk·i·ness, noun
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How to use silky in a sentence
She wore still the silkily gleaming black net in which I had first met her.
Valley of the Croen | Lee TarbellThe relics of yellow hair, still adhering to the sides of his head, looked as silkily frail as spun glass.
Heart and Science | Wilkie CollinsThe yard was quite dark as they turned into it and the poplar leaves were rustling silkily all round it.
Anne Of Green Gables | Lucy Maud MontgomeryAnd he looked admiringly at the ripples playing silkily under the bronze satin of his foreman's arms.
The Song of the Wolf | Frank MayerGlenormiston was pulling Bobby's silkily fringed ears thoughtfully.
Greyfriars Bobby | Eleanor Atkinson
British Dictionary definitions for silky
/ (ˈsɪlkɪ) /
resembling silk in texture; glossy
made of silk
(of a voice, manner, etc) suave; smooth
botany covered with long fine soft hairs: silky leaves
Derived forms of silky
- silkily, adverb
- silkiness, noun
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