Dictionary Definition
silvery adj
1 lustrous gray; covered with or tinged with the
color of silver; "silvery hair" [syn: argent, silver, silverish]
2 resembling or reminiscent of silver; "a soft
silvern voice"; "singing in her silvery tones" [syn: silvern]
3 having the white lustrous sheen of silver; "a
land of silver (or silvern) rivers where the salmon leap";
"repeated scrubbings have given the wood a silvery sheen" [syn:
silver, silvern]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- Resembling silver in color, shiny white.
Translations
- German: silbrig
- Russian: серебристый
Derived terms
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Quaker-colored, achingly sweet, acier, agreeable, agreeable-sounding,
appealing, argent, argentine, ariose, arioso, ashen, ashy, aureate, brass, brassy, brazen, brilliant, bronze, bronzy, canescent, canorous, cantabile, catchy, chalky, cinereous, cinerous, copper, coppery, cretaceous, cupreous, cuprous, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dingy, dismal, dove-colored, dove-gray,
dreary, dulcet, dull, dusty, euphonic, euphonious, euphonous, ferrous, ferruginous, fine-toned,
fleecy-white, frosted,
frosty, gilt, glaucescent, glaucous, glittering, gold, gold-filled, gold-plated,
golden, golden-tongued,
golden-voiced, gray,
gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green,
gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, hoar, hoary, honeyed, iron, iron-gray, ironlike, lactescent, lead, lead-gray, leaden, lily-white, livid, marble, marmoreal, melic, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellisonant, mellow, melodic, melodious, mercurial, mercurous, milky, mouse-colored, mouse-gray,
mousy, music-flowing,
music-like, musical,
nickel, nickelic, nickeline, niveous, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, pewter, pewtery, platinum, pleasant, pleasant-sounding,
pure white, quicksilver, rich, sad, shimmering, shining, silver, silver-gray,
silver-plated, silver-toned, silver-tongued, silver-voiced,
silvered, singable, slate-colored,
slaty, smoke-gray,
smoky, snow-white,
snowy, sober, somber, songful, songlike, sonorous, steel, steel-gray, steely, stone-colored,
swan-white, sweet,
sweet-flowing, sweet-sounding, taupe, tin, tinny, tunable, tuneful, white, white as snow