Definition of opalescent in English:

opalescent

adjective əʊpəˈlɛs(ə)ntˌoʊpəˈlɛs(ə)nt

Showing many small points of shifting colour against a pale or dark ground.
an opalescent sky
Example sentencesExamples
- This process helps combat the natural bitter flavour of the drink and releases its brilliant opalescent green colour.
- At Badgley Mischka, beads were everywhere, from pearls to garnet cat's eye crystals to opalescent moonstones.
- This colorless, solid cream works to temporarily fill in lines and large pores, and leaves a soft, opalescent finish that feels very silky.
- Both the bowl and the foot of the vase are blown in plate blue transparent glass infused with fragmented bits of silver leaf and random streaks of opalescent glass.
- She was a crafter of clay fairies, and beside her camping site was a small wooded patch she decorated with mini Christmas tree lights, opalescent ornaments, and her fairies.
- Robineau used a semiopaque white glaze tinted with copper, which yields greens that range in tone from a pale opalescent turquoise to a stronger green on the cover, stand, and medallions.
- In late afternoon the white sand flew in tatters across the dissolving sun, an opalescent filter, the sky radiating throbbing waves of bruised purple, cobalt and amethyst into the slim gray shred of sand making the horizon.
- My opalescent kneecaps are somewhat bruised, and not in a good way.
- The light that we shine on the opalescent mixture reflects back in every color, at every scale.
- One of opalescent glass contains a bathroom; the other, suspended above the sitting room, is the main bedroom, a capsule under a translucent illuminated ceiling.
- They favour tiny miniskirts and opaquely opalescent tights, and have the ice-eyed look of Natashas and Laras who might at the drop of a dollar give a man more trouble than he could conceivably imagine.
- He'll take you to algal forests, sponge gardens and places where huge schools of blue maomao churn the sea into an opalescent whirlpool.
- Because of its east location there is a moment in the morning when the window glows with the shining light of rebirth, but because of the reflective qualities of opalescent glass, it also shows up brightly in other lighting conditions.
- With unbounded flair, Tia couples opalescent shades of princess and oyster in the finest cotton with stiff denim to capture the edgy allure of modern London.
- Or maybe you're doing more of a queen-of the-underworld thing, in which case you'll dig the Persephone design: an earthy-green drop flanked by opalescent beads.
- He had her name put on the sides in big, bold opalescent green, hoping it would reflect like the shimmerings of an imaginary dragon.
- The pallid double-moons gleamed silver, highlighting some of the leaves, and he could see beams of the opalescent light fall through the breaks in the trees.
- I found a pink raw silk jacket with covered buttons, a soft leopard vest and a cream wool shell covered with opalescent sequins and beads.
- This sense of a calm veneer hiding seething depths also afflicts the movie's other unearthly surface - the opalescent face and underwater-green eyes of Swinton herself.
- A detailed structural investigation on the nature of such aggregates is well beyond the aim of this work, although we noticed a considerable increase of turbidity of the protein solution that became opalescent.
Synonyms
multicoloured, many-hued, prismatic, rainbow-like, kaleidoscopic, iridescent, lustrous, shimmering, glittering, sparkling, scintillating, variegated, shot, moiré, opaline, milky, pearly, nacreous, pearlescent

Derivatives

opalesce

verb

opalescence

noun əʊpəˈlɛs(ə)nsˌoʊpəˈlɛs(ə)ns

Also in this case, the formation of vesicles is suggested by the opalescence of the solution.
Example sentencesExamples
- Glacier Park has quite a few mountains with living glaciers, and the runoff rivulets, creeks and rivers have an opalescence that is indescribably beautiful.
- Moments of critical opalescence in the history of science - moments when a huge variety of scales are implicated - are not frequent.
- The water in front of me beckons with the green-blue milky-white opalescence peculiar to reef shallows.
- It is milky and turbid and represents a phenomenon known as critical opalescence.

Rhymes

acquiescent, adolescent, albescent, Besant, coalescent, confessant, convalescent, crescent, depressant, effervescent, erubescent, evanescent, excrescent, flavescent, fluorescent, immunosuppressant, incandescent, incessant, iridescent, juvenescent, lactescent, liquescent, luminescent, nigrescent, obsolescent, pearlescent, phosphorescent, pubescent, putrescent, quiescent, suppressant, turgescent, virescent, viridescent

Definition of opalescent in US English:

opalescent

adjectiveˌoʊpəˈlɛs(ə)ntˌōpəˈles(ə)nt

Showing varying colors as an opal does.
an opalescent sky
Example sentencesExamples
- He'll take you to algal forests, sponge gardens and places where huge schools of blue maomao churn the sea into an opalescent whirlpool.
- One of opalescent glass contains a bathroom; the other, suspended above the sitting room, is the main bedroom, a capsule under a translucent illuminated ceiling.
- Or maybe you're doing more of a queen-of the-underworld thing, in which case you'll dig the Persephone design: an earthy-green drop flanked by opalescent beads.
- My opalescent kneecaps are somewhat bruised, and not in a good way.
- I found a pink raw silk jacket with covered buttons, a soft leopard vest and a cream wool shell covered with opalescent sequins and beads.
- The pallid double-moons gleamed silver, highlighting some of the leaves, and he could see beams of the opalescent light fall through the breaks in the trees.
- They favour tiny miniskirts and opaquely opalescent tights, and have the ice-eyed look of Natashas and Laras who might at the drop of a dollar give a man more trouble than he could conceivably imagine.
- With unbounded flair, Tia couples opalescent shades of princess and oyster in the finest cotton with stiff denim to capture the edgy allure of modern London.
- He had her name put on the sides in big, bold opalescent green, hoping it would reflect like the shimmerings of an imaginary dragon.
- A detailed structural investigation on the nature of such aggregates is well beyond the aim of this work, although we noticed a considerable increase of turbidity of the protein solution that became opalescent.
- This process helps combat the natural bitter flavour of the drink and releases its brilliant opalescent green colour.
- This sense of a calm veneer hiding seething depths also afflicts the movie's other unearthly surface - the opalescent face and underwater-green eyes of Swinton herself.
- Both the bowl and the foot of the vase are blown in plate blue transparent glass infused with fragmented bits of silver leaf and random streaks of opalescent glass.
- She was a crafter of clay fairies, and beside her camping site was a small wooded patch she decorated with mini Christmas tree lights, opalescent ornaments, and her fairies.
- At Badgley Mischka, beads were everywhere, from pearls to garnet cat's eye crystals to opalescent moonstones.
- The light that we shine on the opalescent mixture reflects back in every color, at every scale.
- This colorless, solid cream works to temporarily fill in lines and large pores, and leaves a soft, opalescent finish that feels very silky.
- Robineau used a semiopaque white glaze tinted with copper, which yields greens that range in tone from a pale opalescent turquoise to a stronger green on the cover, stand, and medallions.
- In late afternoon the white sand flew in tatters across the dissolving sun, an opalescent filter, the sky radiating throbbing waves of bruised purple, cobalt and amethyst into the slim gray shred of sand making the horizon.
- Because of its east location there is a moment in the morning when the window glows with the shining light of rebirth, but because of the reflective qualities of opalescent glass, it also shows up brightly in other lighting conditions.
Synonyms
multicoloured, many-hued, prismatic, rainbow-like, kaleidoscopic, iridescent, lustrous, shimmering, glittering, sparkling, scintillating, variegated, shot, moiré, opaline, milky, pearly, nacreous, pearlescent

单词	opalescent
释义	Definition of opalescent in English: opalescent adjective əʊpəˈlɛs(ə)ntˌoʊpəˈlɛs(ə)nt Showing many small points of shifting colour against a pale or dark ground. an opalescent sky Example sentencesExamples This process helps combat the natural bitter flavour of the drink and releases its brilliant opalescent green colour. At Badgley Mischka, beads were everywhere, from pearls to garnet cat's eye crystals to opalescent moonstones. This colorless, solid cream works to temporarily fill in lines and large pores, and leaves a soft, opalescent finish that feels very silky. Both the bowl and the foot of the vase are blown in plate blue transparent glass infused with fragmented bits of silver leaf and random streaks of opalescent glass. She was a crafter of clay fairies, and beside her camping site was a small wooded patch she decorated with mini Christmas tree lights, opalescent ornaments, and her fairies. Robineau used a semiopaque white glaze tinted with copper, which yields greens that range in tone from a pale opalescent turquoise to a stronger green on the cover, stand, and medallions. In late afternoon the white sand flew in tatters across the dissolving sun, an opalescent filter, the sky radiating throbbing waves of bruised purple, cobalt and amethyst into the slim gray shred of sand making the horizon. My opalescent kneecaps are somewhat bruised, and not in a good way. The light that we shine on the opalescent mixture reflects back in every color, at every scale. One of opalescent glass contains a bathroom; the other, suspended above the sitting room, is the main bedroom, a capsule under a translucent illuminated ceiling. They favour tiny miniskirts and opaquely opalescent tights, and have the ice-eyed look of Natashas and Laras who might at the drop of a dollar give a man more trouble than he could conceivably imagine. He'll take you to algal forests, sponge gardens and places where huge schools of blue maomao churn the sea into an opalescent whirlpool. Because of its east location there is a moment in the morning when the window glows with the shining light of rebirth, but because of the reflective qualities of opalescent glass, it also shows up brightly in other lighting conditions. With unbounded flair, Tia couples opalescent shades of princess and oyster in the finest cotton with stiff denim to capture the edgy allure of modern London. Or maybe you're doing more of a queen-of the-underworld thing, in which case you'll dig the Persephone design: an earthy-green drop flanked by opalescent beads. He had her name put on the sides in big, bold opalescent green, hoping it would reflect like the shimmerings of an imaginary dragon. The pallid double-moons gleamed silver, highlighting some of the leaves, and he could see beams of the opalescent light fall through the breaks in the trees. I found a pink raw silk jacket with covered buttons, a soft leopard vest and a cream wool shell covered with opalescent sequins and beads. This sense of a calm veneer hiding seething depths also afflicts the movie's other unearthly surface - the opalescent face and underwater-green eyes of Swinton herself. A detailed structural investigation on the nature of such aggregates is well beyond the aim of this work, although we noticed a considerable increase of turbidity of the protein solution that became opalescent. Synonyms multicoloured, many-hued, prismatic, rainbow-like, kaleidoscopic, iridescent, lustrous, shimmering, glittering, sparkling, scintillating, variegated, shot, moiré, opaline, milky, pearly, nacreous, pearlescent Derivatives opalesce verb opalescence noun əʊpəˈlɛs(ə)nsˌoʊpəˈlɛs(ə)ns Also in this case, the formation of vesicles is suggested by the opalescence of the solution. Example sentencesExamples Glacier Park has quite a few mountains with living glaciers, and the runoff rivulets, creeks and rivers have an opalescence that is indescribably beautiful. Moments of critical opalescence in the history of science - moments when a huge variety of scales are implicated - are not frequent. The water in front of me beckons with the green-blue milky-white opalescence peculiar to reef shallows. It is milky and turbid and represents a phenomenon known as critical opalescence. Rhymes acquiescent, adolescent, albescent, Besant, coalescent, confessant, convalescent, crescent, depressant, effervescent, erubescent, evanescent, excrescent, flavescent, fluorescent, immunosuppressant, incandescent, incessant, iridescent, juvenescent, lactescent, liquescent, luminescent, nigrescent, obsolescent, pearlescent, phosphorescent, pubescent, putrescent, quiescent, suppressant, turgescent, virescent, viridescent Definition of opalescent in US English: opalescent adjectiveˌoʊpəˈlɛs(ə)ntˌōpəˈles(ə)nt Showing varying colors as an opal does. an opalescent sky Example sentencesExamples He'll take you to algal forests, sponge gardens and places where huge schools of blue maomao churn the sea into an opalescent whirlpool. One of opalescent glass contains a bathroom; the other, suspended above the sitting room, is the main bedroom, a capsule under a translucent illuminated ceiling. Or maybe you're doing more of a queen-of the-underworld thing, in which case you'll dig the Persephone design: an earthy-green drop flanked by opalescent beads. My opalescent kneecaps are somewhat bruised, and not in a good way. I found a pink raw silk jacket with covered buttons, a soft leopard vest and a cream wool shell covered with opalescent sequins and beads. The pallid double-moons gleamed silver, highlighting some of the leaves, and he could see beams of the opalescent light fall through the breaks in the trees. They favour tiny miniskirts and opaquely opalescent tights, and have the ice-eyed look of Natashas and Laras who might at the drop of a dollar give a man more trouble than he could conceivably imagine. With unbounded flair, Tia couples opalescent shades of princess and oyster in the finest cotton with stiff denim to capture the edgy allure of modern London. He had her name put on the sides in big, bold opalescent green, hoping it would reflect like the shimmerings of an imaginary dragon. A detailed structural investigation on the nature of such aggregates is well beyond the aim of this work, although we noticed a considerable increase of turbidity of the protein solution that became opalescent. This process helps combat the natural bitter flavour of the drink and releases its brilliant opalescent green colour. This sense of a calm veneer hiding seething depths also afflicts the movie's other unearthly surface - the opalescent face and underwater-green eyes of Swinton herself. Both the bowl and the foot of the vase are blown in plate blue transparent glass infused with fragmented bits of silver leaf and random streaks of opalescent glass. She was a crafter of clay fairies, and beside her camping site was a small wooded patch she decorated with mini Christmas tree lights, opalescent ornaments, and her fairies. At Badgley Mischka, beads were everywhere, from pearls to garnet cat's eye crystals to opalescent moonstones. The light that we shine on the opalescent mixture reflects back in every color, at every scale. This colorless, solid cream works to temporarily fill in lines and large pores, and leaves a soft, opalescent finish that feels very silky. Robineau used a semiopaque white glaze tinted with copper, which yields greens that range in tone from a pale opalescent turquoise to a stronger green on the cover, stand, and medallions. In late afternoon the white sand flew in tatters across the dissolving sun, an opalescent filter, the sky radiating throbbing waves of bruised purple, cobalt and amethyst into the slim gray shred of sand making the horizon. Because of its east location there is a moment in the morning when the window glows with the shining light of rebirth, but because of the reflective qualities of opalescent glass, it also shows up brightly in other lighting conditions. Synonyms multicoloured, many-hued, prismatic, rainbow-like, kaleidoscopic, iridescent, lustrous, shimmering, glittering, sparkling, scintillating, variegated, shot, moiré, opaline, milky, pearly, nacreous, pearlescent
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