filmy
Collocations
1ADJ.
black, dead
Definitions
adj
Resembling or made of a thin film; gauzy.
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.
Filmlike; resembling a motion picture.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — so thin as to transmit light
- diaphanous
- gauzy
- gauze-like
- gossamer
- see-through
- sheer
- transparent
- vaporous
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
2The eyes were small, and of a dead filmy black; they said nothing, even when fixed upon you.
Wiktionary1894, 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/ebooks
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