metallic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈtæl.ɪk/
ipa: /mɪˈtæl.ɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmɛʈælɪk/
rhymes: -ælɪk
Forms: form: more metallic
form: most metallic
form: metallick
Etymology: From Latin metallicus, from metallum (“metal”), from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon). Equivalent to metal + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or characteristic of metal.
examples: text: […] and, lo ! a palace towering ſeems, / With Parian pillars and metallic beams.
ref: a. 1712, William King, “Rufinus: Or, The Favourite”, in The Works of the English Poets, volume XX, page 374:
text: These chemical distinctions then, to which we have referred, are quite independent of physical condition. For instance, amongst the most metallic of the metals is a gas.
ref: 1878, Sir Norman Lockyer, “On Dissociation”, in Studies in Spectrum Analysis, page 167:
text: Assemblymember Bill Quirk (D-Hayward) has introduced a bill to address power outages caused by metallic film balloons when they come into contact with powerlines.
ref: 2018 February 14, “Reducing Power Outages Caused by Metallic Balloons is Focus of Bill Introduced Today”, in California State Assembly Democratic Caucus, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2020:
glosses: Made of or containing metal.
examples: text: No sooner had these syllables passed my lips, than—as if a shield of brass had indeed, at the moment, fallen heavily upon a floor of silver—I became aware of a distinct, hollow, metallic and clangorous, yet apparently muffled reverberation.
ref: 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, in Tales, London: Wiley & Putnam, published 1846, page 81:
glosses: Harsh, as if coming from two metals striking one another.
raw_tags: of a sound
glosses: Having the appearance of being of polished metal.
raw_tags: of a color
Synonyms: word: metalish
word: metallical
word: metallous
Derived terms: sense: Prefixed forms
word: antemetallic
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word: bimetallic
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word: biometallic
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word: dimetallic
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word: flexometallic
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word: half-metallic
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word: heterometallic
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word: homometallic
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word: intermetallic
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word: monometallic
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word: multimetallic
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word: nanometallic
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english: non-metallic
translation: non-metallic
word: nonmetallic
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word: organometallic
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word: polymetallic
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word: premetallic
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word: proto-metallic
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word: pseudometallic
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word: quadrimetallic
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word: radiometallic
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word: semimetallic
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word: submetallic
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word: trimetallic
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word: unmetallic
sense: Other derivations
word: Carolina metallic tiger beetle
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word: metallical
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word: metallically
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word: metallic bond
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word: metallic hydrogen
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word: metallic isopod
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word: metallicity
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word: metallicize
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word: metallicly
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word: metallicness
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word: metallic radius
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word: metallic soap
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word: metallic waterproofing
Related terms: metal