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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
chatoyant is an adjective meaning "varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles". It carries one recorded sense.
varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles
“changeable taffeta”
“chatoyant (or shot) silk”
“a dragonfly hovered, vibrating and iridescent”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for chatoyant come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.