metallic
Metallic things are either made out of metal or look like they are. Your metallic party dress might be covered in sparkly silver sequins. Yowza!
A metallic bicycle might be unpainted chrome — made of metal, in other words. Your metallic nail polish only resembles metal, glinting and shining gold. It’s also possible to taste something that reminds you of metal and get a lingering metallic taste in your mouth. Metallic comes from metal, and both are rooted in the Greek metallon, “metal or ore.”
Definitions of metallic
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containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal
“a
metallic compound”“metallic luster”“”the strange
metallic note of the meadow lark, suggesting the clash of vibrant blades”- Ambrose Bierce”-
synonyms:
metal-
all-metal
consisting completely of metal
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aluminiferous
containing alum or aluminum
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antimonial
containing antimony
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argentiferous
containing or yielding silver
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auriferous, gold-bearing
containing gold
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bimetal, bimetallic
formed of two different metals or alloys; especially in sheets bonded together
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bronze
made from or consisting of bronze
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gilded, gold, golden
made from or covered with gold
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metal-looking, metallic-looking, metallike
resembling metal
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silver
made from or largely consisting of silver
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tinny
thin and metallic in sound; lacking resonance
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Antonyms:
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nonmetal, nonmetallic
not containing or resembling or characteristic of a metal
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metalloid
of or being a nonmetallic element that has some of the properties of metal
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all-metal
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a yarn made partly or entirely of metal
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a fabric made of a yarn that is partly or entirely of metal
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