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filmy

adj
/ˈfɪlmi/

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from *filmīn-✻ — “thin skin, membrane”
  2. inherited from *filmīn-✻
  3. inherited from filmen — “film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin”
  4. inherited from filme
  5. suffixed as filmy — “film + y”

Definitions

  1. Resembling or made of a thin film

    Resembling or made of a thin film; gauzy.

  2. Covered by (or as if by) a film

    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.

  3. Filmlike

    Filmlike; resembling a motion picture.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for filmy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA