silvery

1. 1.

   resembling or reminiscent of silver

   “a soft silvern voice”

   “singing in her silvery tones”

   Synonymssilvern

   Similareuphonious
2. 2.

   having the white lustrous sheen of silver

   “a land of silver (or silvern) rivers where the salmon leap”

   “repeated scrubbings have given the wood a silvery sheen”

   Synonymssilversilvern

   Similarbright
3. 3.

   of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver

   “silvery hair”

   Synonymsargentsilversilverish

   Similarachromatic

Questions about silvery

What does silvery mean?

silvery means "resembling or reminiscent of silver". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in silvery?

silvery has 3 syllables: sil-ve-ry. The stress falls on "sil". In IPA it is /ˈsɪlvɚi/.

What is another word for silvery?

Close synonyms include silvern, silver, silvern, argent, silver. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is silvery a common word?

silvery is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.