| 单词 | filmy |
| 释义 | filmy (once / 4474 pages) adj Something that's filmy is light and translucent. Filmy white curtains are especially pretty when the sun shines through them and they blow in the breeze. The adjective filmy often describes fabric that you can almost see through, like a filmy dress you wear to the prom. A filmy layer of light might rest on the surface of water, and your old dog might have filmy eyes. In all of these examples, the filmy thing is nearly as thin as a film or membrane: the word stems from the Old English filmen, "membrane or thin skin." WORD FAMILYfilmy: filmier, filmiest, filmily+/film: filmable, filmed, filming, films, filmy/filmed: unfilmed/filming: filmings USAGE EXAMPLESWearing filmy black masks that concealed their faces, Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun might’ve been registering their discontent with Trump and his thoughts on torture. Los Angeles Times(Nov 20, 2016) Visitors lingered to look at blue-painted women wearing deconstructed jeans, single denim pockets strapped on as accessories, filmy jackets and even crystals. Wall Street Journal(Sep 20, 2016) Women were told to wear black niqabs or veils that covered their faces and eyes, forcing them to see through a filmy gauze. Washington Post(Aug 22, 2016) adj so thin as to transmit light filmy wings of a moth Syn cobwebby, diaphanous, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous thin of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section |
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