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milky

milky

68 1.0
Pale white and slightly cloudy like milk
  • adjective
  • /ˈmɪlki/
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  • He has milky white socks on both feet.
  • milky white
  • milky eyes

They came out with an Uber gloss, a Milky lavender.

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Examples

  • She chose a milky shade of paint for the nursery walls.

  • The milk is looking like a Milky porridge.

  • Your coffee was very Milky and the temperature was all wrong.

  • It's just a really nice kind of like Milky brown nude.

  • The colour here we're getting clearly is going Milky, showing the formation of carbon.

  • It is a very, very Milky baby pink.

  • Milky-white skin.

  • The sky turned a milky white as the fog rolled in.

  • The soup was too milky, making it look unappetizing.

Synonyms

creamy
vsmilky
15 1.0

A pale yellowish-white color like light butter

is paler and more opaque rather than warm yellowish
cloudy
vsmilky
9 2.3

Liquid that is not clear and has small particles

emphasizes pale white coloration as well as lack of transparency
cream-colored
vsmilky
8 2.5

Having a pale yellowish-white color like fresh cream

is cooler and more opaque than this yellowish pale shade
whitish
vsmilky
4 1.6

Light in color, slightly pale like milk

is more opaque and clearly cloudy than merely pale
milk-white
vsmilky
1 3.7

A white color like fresh milk

is paler and more cloudy rather than pure white
creamy-white
vsmilky
1 2.7

A pale yellow-white color like fresh cream

is whiter and cloudier, not yellowish in tone
milklike
vsmilky
2.3

Pale, cloudy white in color

is identical in sense but formed with the -like suffix
creamy-colored
vsmilky
1.9

Pale yellowish white like fresh cream

is less warm in hue and more clearly cloudy or opaque

Antonyms

866 1.0

Free from things that block sight or movement

54 3.2

Clear enough to see things behind it, like glass

Compounds

52 3.7

A group of stars that contains our solar system and looks like a band of light in the night sky

A large group of stars that contains the solar system and looks like a faint milky band in the sky

A smooth, creamy quality like milk

How Milky

opaque
1 4.7
milky
68 1.0
cloudy
9 2.3
translucent
30 4.8
transparent
54 3.2

Surface Forms

milky positive

Morphology

milky = milk (transparent) = milk + y

Standard adjectival formation from 'milk' + '-y' meaning 'resembling or having the qualities of milk', which is directly inferable.

Etymology

Milky comes from milk and the ending -y, which means 'full of' or 'like', so it literally means 'like milk' and is used for things that are pale, white, or cloudy in appearance.