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velvety
What does velvety mean?
velvety (adjective): smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use velvety in a sentence?
- The bat's fur was dark brown and velvety. (Tatoeba sentence #11878226 by Amastan, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce velvety?
/ˈvɛlvəti/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does velvety come from?
From velvet + -y.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “velvety” mean?
smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste
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in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist
Not quite: that's what damp means.
opposed; contrary; opposing one's interests or desire
Not quite: that's what adverse means.
devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
Not quite: that's what stark means.
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