filmy

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
14
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈfɪlmi/

Definition of filmy

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Resembling or made of a thin film; gauzy.
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adj

  1. Resembling or made of a thin film; gauzy.
  2. Covered by (or as if by) a film; hazy.
    “The eyes were small, and of a dead filmy black; they said nothing, even when fixed upon you.”
    “1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XVI, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt On the following morning the head of Strezlecki Creek was passed and in the dim distance could be seen the filmy blue outlines of Mount Arrowsmith, behind which lay the magnificent Nardoo station.”
  3. Filmlike; resembling a motion picture.

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Etymology

From film + -y. Cognate with Middle Dutch velmich, vilmich (“filmy, membranous”). Doublet of filmic.

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