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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective milky has 1 sense
- milky(s = adj.all) milklike, whitish - resembling milk in color not clear; "milky glass" Derived form noun milk1
CIDE DICTIONARY
milky, a.
- Consisting of, or containing, milk. [1913 Webster]"Pails high foaming with a milky flood." [1913 Webster]
- Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the water is milky. “Milky juice.” Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
- Yielding milk. Roscommon. [1913 Webster]
- Mild; tame; spiritless. [1913 Webster]"Has friendship such a faint and milky heart?" [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
milky, adj. (milkier, milkiest)
1 of, like, or mixed with milk.
2 (of a gem or liquid) cloudy; not clear.
3 effeminate; weakly amiable.
1 of, like, or mixed with milk.
2 (of a gem or liquid) cloudy; not clear.
3 effeminate; weakly amiable.
Idiom
Milky Way a faintly luminous band of light emitted by countless stars encircling the heavens; the Galaxy.
Derivative
milkiness n.
THESAURUS
milky
argent, argentine, bland, canescent, chalky, changeable, cretaceous, fleecy-white, frosted, frosty, grizzled, grizzly, halfhearted, hoar, hoary, indecisive, infirm of purpose, infirm of will, insipid, irresolute, lacteal, lacteous, lactescent, lactic, lactiferous, lily-white, marble, marmoreal, milch, milk, milk-and-water, mushy, neutral, niveous, platinum, pure white, silver, silvered, silvery, snow-white, snowy, swan-white, tasteless, vapid, watery, white, white as snow, wishy-washyROGET THESAURUS
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Semiliquidity
N semiliquidity, stickiness, viscidity, viscosity, gummosity, glutinosity, mucosity, spissitude, crassitude, lentor, adhesiveness, inspissation, incrassation, thickening, jelly, mucilage, gelatin, gluten, carlock, fish glue, ichthyocol, ichthycolla, isinglass, mucus, phlegm, goo, pituite, lava, glair, starch, gluten, albumen, milk, cream, protein, treacle, gum, size, glue (tenacity), wax, beeswax, emulsion, soup, squash, mud, slush, slime, ooze, moisture, marsh, semifluid, semiliquid, tremellose, half melted, half frozen, milky, muddy, lacteal, lactean, lacteous, lactescent, lactiferous, emulsive, curdled, thick, succulent, uliginous, gelatinous, albuminous, mucilaginous, glutinous, glutenous, gelatin, mastic, amylaceous, ropy, clammy, clotted, viscid, viscous, sticky, tacky, gooey, slab, slabby, lentous, pituitous, mucid, muculent, mucous, gummy.Semitransparency
N semitransparency, translucency, semiopacity, opalescence, milkiness, pearliness, gauze, muslin, film, mica, mother-of-pearl, nacre, mist, opal, turbidity, Adj, semitransparent, translucent, semipellucid, semidiaphanous, semiopacous, semiopaque, opalescent, opaline, pearly, milky, frosted, nacreous, semitransparent, translucent, semipellucid, semidiaphanous, semiopacous, semiopaque, opalescent, opaline, pearly, milky, frosted, nacreous, V, opalesce, (ii) SPECIFIC LIGHT, semitransparency, translucency, semiopacity, opalescence, milkiness, pearliness, gauze, muslin, film, mica, mother-of-pearl, nacre, mist, opal, turbidity, Adj, semitransparent, translucent, semipellucid, semidiaphanous, semiopacous, semiopaque, opalescent, opaline, pearly, milky, frosted, nacreous, semitransparent, translucent, semipellucid, semidiaphanous, semiopacous, semiopaque, opalescent, opaline, pearly, milky, frosted, nacreous, V, opalesce, (ii) SPECIFIC LIGHT.
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