filmy

English

Etymology

From film +‎ -y. Doublet of filmic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪlmi/

Adjective

filmy (comparative filmier, superlative filmiest)

1. Resembling or made of a thin film; gauzy
2. Covered by (or as if by) a film; hazy
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Poverty”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 279:

     The eyes were small, and of a dead filmy black; they said nothing, even when fixed upon you.

   • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XVI, [1]

     On the following morning the head of Strezlecki Creek was passed and in the dim distance could be seen the filmy blue outlines of Mount Arrowsmith, behind which lay the magnificent Nardoo station.

3. film-like; similar to a motion picture

Derived terms

• filmy fern
• Wilson's filmy fern

 

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfil.mɘ/
• Rhymes: -ilmɘ
• Syllabification: fil‧my

Noun

filmy m

1. nominative plural of film
2. accusative plural of film
3. vocative plural of film