silvery

CEFRB1

/ˈsɪlvəɹi/

noun · adjective

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01
noun
Shiny and gray like silver.
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noun
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Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound.

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a silvery laugh
Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows feeding unconcernedly for the most part, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight.
OF all th' enamell'd race, whose silvery wing / Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring.

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OF all th' enamell'd race, whose silvery wing / Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring.
1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC
Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows feeding unconcernedly for the most part, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight.
1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 98
A silvery cloud drifted over the mountains that surrounded him, its edges glowing with ruddy light cast from the harvest moon cradled between two peaks.
2003, Christopher Paolini, “Discovery”, in Eragon, page 6
Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.
2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884
But inside the aquarium, riotously colored saltwater fish, schools of silvery piranhas, and even one seemingly communicative manta ray allow visitors to dream of worlds beyond a war that has made the land where the oceanic sanctuary sits a battle zone.
2025 December 22, Howard LaFranchi, “Near Ukraine’s front line, aquarium offers refuge for kids and soldiers alike”, in The Christian Science Monitor

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From Middle English silvery, sylvyry; equivalent to silver + -y.