silvery

English

Etymology

silver +‎ -y

Adjective

silvery (comparative silverier, superlative silveriest)

1. Resembling silver in color, shiny white.

   All the enameled race, whose silvery wing / Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring. — Alexander Pope.

2. Sprinkled or covered with silver.
3. Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound.

   a silvery laugh

Translations

resembling silver

• Czech: stříbrný (cs), stříbřitý (cs)
• French: argenté (fr) m
• German: silbrig (de)

• Hungarian: ezüstös (hu)
• Russian: серебристый (ru) (s'er'rbrístyj)
• Swedish: silvrig (sv)

Derived terms

• silvery acacia
• silvery fox
• silvery gade
• silvery gibbon
• silvery gull
• silvery hair-grass
• silvery hair-tail
• silvery honeysuckle
• silvery oak
• silvery pout
• silvery salmon
• silvery shrew mole
• silvery-tongued