Meaning

(also figuratively) Like velvet; soft, smooth, soothing..

Example Sentences

The mouse was a warm, velvety weight in my hand.

The crooner had a velvety voice that made the ladies swoon.

1964, Elie Wiesel, The Town Beyond the Wall (1962), translated by Stephen Becker, New York: Atheneum, 1964, p. 104, Tangier was washed in a velvety bluish twilight.

In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke the tender limbs.

"The humble dung-beetle was at least a fact. All this psychic stuff is not." "No doubt you have good grounds for your views," chirped the mischievous Millworthy, a mild youth with a velvety manner.

Through the velvety wind V-winged / To the nest's nook I balance and buoy / With a sweet joy of a sweet joy, / Sweet, of a sweet, of a sweet joy / Of a sweet—a sweet—sweet—joy.

As he came down the huge velvety paws caught him as gently as a mother’s arms and set him (right way up, too) on the ground.

By now it was dark, velvety dark with a moon, a darkness pinpricked by the lights from the landing place now drawing rapidly closer.

Word Forms

• more velvety
• most velvety
• velvetty

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When Should You Use Velvety?

Use velvety when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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