Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

filmy

/ˈfɪlmi/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 2.13 in modern English

Syllables: filmy
IPA: /ˈfɪlmi/

13

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Resembling or made of a thin film; gauzy.

adj

Covered by (or as if by) a film; hazy.

adj

Filmlike; resembling a motion picture.

Example Sentences

"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, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt 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."

Etymology

From film + -y. Cognate with Middle Dutch velmich, vilmich (“filmy, membranous”). Doublet of filmic.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: film

Inflected Forms

filmier (comparative) filmiest (superlative)

Derived Forms

filmily filminess

Phrases

filmy fern Wilson's filmy fern

Synonyms

diaphanous gauzy gauze-like gossamer see-through sheer transparent vaporous vapourous cobwebby

Questions

How do you pronounce filmy?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈfɪlmi/.
What does filmy mean?: Resembling or made of a thin film; gauzy.
Where does filmy come from?: From film + -y. Cognate with Middle Dutch velmich, vilmich (“filmy, membranous”). Doublet of filmic.

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