What does coppery mean?
Coppery means Resembling the metal copper, especially in color..
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/ˈkɒpəɹi/ · adjective
Resembling the metal copper, especially in color..
That night I dreamed I had a very disagreeable taste in my mouth, which caused me to spit all the time. I awoke and found my mouth full of saliva, with a coppery taste, and sure enough, I was obliged to spit.
Venetian women who wanted coppery hair colors applied bleaching mixtures, such as one that contained alum, sulfur, soda, and rhubarb. Then they sat in the sun, where heat produced a chemical reaction that developed the color.
an especially coppery grade of brass
Use coppery when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Coppery means Resembling the metal copper, especially in color..
Common synonyms include copperish, chromatic, copper colored, colored.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
That night I dreamed I had a very disagreeable taste in my mouth, which caused me to spit all the time. I awoke and found my mouth full of saliva, with a coppery taste, and sure enough, I was obliged to spit.
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