Word info Synonyms Antonyms

metallic

Speech parts

1. metallic - Noun

2. metallic - Adjective

Meaning

Of or pertaining to a metal; of the nature of metal; resembling metal; as, a metallic appearance; a metallic alloy.

Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

Show all synonyms

Antonyms

Show all antonyms

Hypernyms

Phrases with the word

Examples

It is therefore necessary to prepare the imminent and inevitable identification of man with the motor, facilitating and perfecting an incessant exchange of intuition, rhythm, instinct and metallic discipline, quite utterly unknown to the majority of humanity and only divined by the most lucid mind. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it. Karl Marx

Anger he smiles towering in shiney metallic purple armour, Queen jealousy envy waits behind him, Her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground. Jimi Hendrix

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy. Björk

In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest. Fernando Pessoa

Never have the world's moneys been so long cut off from their metallic roots. Murray Rothbard

Close letter words and terms