Quicksilver
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈkwɪkˌsɪlvɚ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Quicksilver is a noun meaning The metal mercury.
Meaning
The metal mercury.
More Meanings
- (loosely) An amalgam of mercury and tin applied to the backs of mirrors; quicksilvering.
- Unpredictable, erratic, or fickle; mercurial.
- (transitive) To overlay with quicksilver.
- (transitive) To treat with quicksilver.
Example Sentences
Summer is not the most auspicious season for theater in New York. Aside from a few certifiable Broadway hits, it is, in fact, a rather quicksilver commodity.
The idea of a merchant selling both totems of pure evil and frozen yogurt (he calls it frogurt!) is amusing in itself, as is the idea that frogurt could be cursed, but it’s really the Shopkeeper’s quicksilver shift from ominous doomsaying to chipper salesmanship that sells the sequence.
Word Forms
- quicksilvers
- quicksilvering
- quicksilvered
Synonyms for quicksilver
Depending on context, synonyms include mercury, hydrargyrum, erratic, fickle, mercurial.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include changeful, changeable, fickle, erratic, mercury, mercurial.
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