What is another word for velvety?

Pronunciation: [vˈɛlvɪti] (IPA)

Velvety is a word used to describe a texture that is smooth, soft, and luxurious, often resembling the texture of velvet. Some synonyms for the word velvety include silky, smooth, creamy, soft, plush, and luxurious. These words are often used to describe textures that are pleasing to the touch and evoke feelings of comfort and indulgence. Other synonyms for velvety might include opulent, sumptuous, or rich, which describe textures that are decadent, extravagant, and full of indulgence. In general, synonyms for velvety describe textures that are delightful to experience, and add an element of luxury to any sensory experience.

Synonyms for Velvety:

What are the hypernyms for Velvety?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for velvety?

The antonyms for the word "velvety" include rough, coarse, scratchy, harsh, prickly, uneven, bumpy, lumpy, and gritty. Velvety generally refers to something soft and smooth to touch, however, if something is rough, it means it is not soft or pleasant to touch. It can cause discomfort or even pain. Coarse, scratchy, and harsh are also antonyms of velvety, indicating a texture that is rough and unrefined. Prickly suggests something covered in thorns or spikes, while uneven, bumpy, and lumpy indicate that the texture is not uniform. Finally, gritty is an antonym for velvety, meaning it is rough-textured and has particles that abrade or scratch.

Usage examples for Velvety

The lights were golden on the lawn, and the great cedar was casting velvety shadows there.
"A Vanished Hand"
Sarah Doudney
It is most important for the health of the skin that we keep that velvety coating unscratched and unbroken.
"A Handbook of Health"
Woods Hutchinson
Nature did not coat us over with either boards or rubber, but with delicate, velvety, sensitive, living skin worth ten times as much as any sort of leather, bark, rubber, or cloth, for resisting cold, heat, and injuries.
"A Handbook of Health"
Woods Hutchinson

Famous quotes with Velvety

  • Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.
    Raymond Chandler
  • Recently I was visited by a very good friend who had just returned from a long walk in the woods, and I asked her what she had observed. “Nothing in particular,” she replied. I might have been incredulous had I not been accustomed to such responses, for long ago I became convinced that the seeing see little. How was it possible, I asked myself, to walk for an hour through the woods and see nothing worthy of note? I who cannot see find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough, shaggy bark of a pine. In spring I touch the branches of trees hopefully in search of a bud, the first sign of awakening Nature after her winter’s sleep. I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me.
    Helen Keller
  • He replaced the gray of the walls with a darker shade by closing his eyes. It felt good to shut out some of the light. Not all, but just some. Just enough so there was a gray without images or threatening corners. Not the blackness that gives birth to those sudden flashes of stinging light that slashes your eyes, or the velvety darkness that thickens and become animated and flows and somehow moves around and over you. Just a soothing gray. Nothing to see.
    Hubert Selby
  • And as for that low, velvety voice of hers, if she asked me to murder my best friend I should have to do it on the spot.
    Edmund Clerihew Bentley
  • By the way, would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss-waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will remain split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of barroom vernacular, this is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed and attentive. The method may not be perfect, but it is all I have.
    Raymond Chandler

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