'Silvery' definitions:
Definition of 'silvery'
From: WordNet
adjective
Resembling or reminiscent of silver; "a soft silvern voice"; "singing in her silvery tones" [syn: silvern, silvery]
adjective
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, silvery]
adjective
Definition of 'Silvery'
From: GCIDE
- Silvery \Sil"ver*y\, a.
- 1. Resembling, or having the luster of, silver; grayish white and lustrous; of a mild luster; bright. [1913 Webster]
- All the enameled race, whose silvery wing Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Besprinkled or covered with silver. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound; as, silvery voices; a silvery laugh. [1913 Webster]
- Silvery iron (Metal.), a peculiar light-gray fine-grained cast iron, usually obtained from clay iron ore. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'silvery'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Quaker-colored,
- 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