filmier

[US]/'fɪlmɪ/
[UK]/'fɪlmi/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. thin film-like, hazy.

Phrases & Collocations

a filmy layer

Example Sentences

the filmy wings of a moth;

filmy lingerie.See Synonyms at airy

models wafted down the catwalk in filmy organza skirts.

The actress wore a filmy dress to the red carpet event.

She gazed through the filmy curtains at the view outside.

The morning mist created a filmy veil over the landscape.

He wiped the filmy residue off the glass with a cloth.

She had a filmy memory of the events from that night.

The filmy wings of the butterfly shimmered in the sunlight.

The soup had a filmy layer of oil on top.

The artist painted a filmy mist over the mountains in the background.

The lake was covered in a filmy layer of algae.

She could barely see through the filmy haze that filled the room.

Real-world Examples

All his life, Rembrandt seemed to love the filmy muck of oil paint.

Source: The Power of Art - Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

And her filmy wandering eyes fixed themselves with an intensity of wistfulness on Mrs. Thornton's face.

Source: South and North (Middle)

At noon the clouds occupied about .05 of the sky, white filmy touches drawn delicately on the azure.

Source: Summer walks through the mountains.

A gossamer is a light filmy substance, like the webs of small spiders, floating in calm air or spread over grass.

Source: Southwest Associated University English Textbook

He looked at her; she saw the idea of the truth glimmer into their filmy sadness, and be dismissed thence as a wild imagination.

Source: South and North (Middle)

At intervals a light veil obscured the moonlight, as a filmy cloud fleeted across the moon; and a bitter wind blew shrill across the gulf.

Source: Three mysterious people

Nothing is fixed, ' said her father, with anxious hesitation, as he noticed the filmy sorrow that came over her eyes, and the sudden change in her complexion.

Source: The South and the North (Part 1)

He wished he could have said more, and then suddenly the sense of pity and irony floated over him in a filmy haze; this youth, so eager and ardent, would take things very hardly.

Source: The Disappearing Horizon

It was as if all the dreams, sleeping and waking, of its vivid occupant had taken a visible although unmaterial form and had tapestried the bare room with splendid filmy tissues of rainbow and moonshine.

Source: Anne of Green Gables (Original Version)

See how dense and opaque they are at the point of attachment, and how filmy and translucent toward the end, so that the peaks back of them are seen dimly, as though you were looking through ground glass.

Source: The Mountains of California (Part 1)

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