What does silvery mean?
Silvery means Resembling silver in color, shiny white..
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/ˈsɪlvəɹi/ · adjective
Resembling silver in color, shiny white..
OF all th' enamell'd race, whose silvery wing / Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring.
Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows feeding unconcernedly for the most part, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight.
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.
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.
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.
a silvery laugh
The hand grasped the curtain, and drew it aside, and as it did so I heard a voice, I think the softest and yet most silvery voice I ever heard.
Use silvery when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Silvery means Resembling silver in color, shiny white..
Common synonyms include silvern, bright, achromatic, silver.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
OF all th' enamell'd race, whose silvery wing / Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring.
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