silvery

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Or is it when you make the keyboard silvery in color?

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resembling or reminiscent of silver; "a soft silvern voice"; "singing in her silvery tones"

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

resembling or reminiscent of silver; "a soft silvern voice"; "singing in her silvery tones"

adjective

having the white lustrous sheen of silver; "a land of silver (or silvern) rivers where the salmon leap"; "repeated scrubbings have given the wood a silvery sheen"

adjective

of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver; "silvery hair"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for silvery.

adjective

resembling or reminiscent of silver; "a soft silvern voice"; "singing in her silvery tones"

adjective

having the white lustrous sheen of silver; "a land of silver (or silvern) rivers where the salmon leap"; "repeated scrubbings have given the wood a silvery sheen"

adjective

of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver; "silvery hair"

Example sentences

Or is it when you make the keyboard silvery in color?

But hey, it's a laptop and and it's small and silvery, Google made a Macbook clone...

Today it’s a metropolis aglow with tens of thousands of cool silvery pinpoint lights.

The only real drawback of the display is that whites can look silvery depending on how it, you, and the sun are angled.

You know, this is probably a really ridiculous gripe, but that silvery plastic look makes the new Kindles look cheap.

"The silvery markings may resemble pencil, but they are permanent and smudge-proof.

High quality diamonds look grayer/silvery under bright light, whereas CZ produces rainbows.

This looks even smoother than Square, but I'm curious to see how it handles credit cards with the silvery ink worn off of the numbers, or cards with complex graphics on the front.

"With so much competition in Android space" - you mean different versions of Samsung Galaxy silvery-roundy-corner things competing with each other?

Apparently local emergency centers then had received numerous calls from anxious residents reporting a strange, giant, silvery cloud in the dark sky.

There are actually studies being done around implementing exactly that with antibiotics... However there is also the fun danger of your skin turning incurably silvery blue thanks to the silver component in the antibiotics... No really.