silken
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4.3
- adjective
- /ˈsɪlkən/
:
sedoso
- The dress was made of a silken fabric that shimmered in the light.
- silken threads
This says it smooths, hydrates, renews with a silken effect, and this is also silicone free and it's water soluble.
- This says it smooths, hydrates, renews with a silken effect, and this is also silicone free and it's water soluble.
- Even the young woman taking a silken dress out of a box looks away and looks away when I see her holding in her hand a little black shoe.
- What blind, gnawing, mandibled head was chewing up the silken thread we thought would guide us back to bed?
Examples
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His kitchen is filled with silken houseplants made to look real and hung out of reach.
Fiction book (1997) -
The ministers in their silken mantles all seemed slightly awed by their own sublime importance.
Fiction book (1993) -
To the fair hair on her silken belly.
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- Feel its silken flesh.
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The surface, shiny and silken.
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That silken red hair.
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Her tresses were almost silken in their length and lightness, and quite clean.
Fiction book (1994) -
"…she sits in the silken boudoir of her house…"
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The p59 moonlight washed cool over her silken hair and down across her sculpted legs.
Fiction book (1992) -
I've never seen such a profusion of silken draperies, porcelain knickknacks, and embroidered pillows.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
41
3.2
A smooth, shiny fabric often made from silk or man-made thread
37
1.0
Smooth and soft to touch like fine cloth
11
3.5
Smooth and shiny like silk or polished wood
11
3.8
Smooth and very soft in touch, look, sound, or taste
3
4.1
Smooth and soft with a shiny surface like silk
Having a smooth, soft, and shiny feel like fine cloth
Antonyms
Compounds
How Smooth
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word silken comes from silk, the soft fabric, plus the ending -en, like in wooden, meaning 'made of' or 'having'. So, silken means 'made of silk' or 'very smooth like silk'.