filmy
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English
Etymology
From film + -y. Doublet of filmic.
Pronunciation
Adjective
filmy (comparative filmier, superlative filmiest)
- Resembling or made of a thin film; gauzy
- Covered by (or as if by) a film; hazy
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Poverty”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 279:
- 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, [1]
- 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.
- film-like; similar to a motion picture
Derived terms
Polish
Pronunciation
Noun
filmy m
- nominative plural of film
- accusative plural of film
- vocative plural of film
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