opalescent
exhibiting a play of colors like that of the opal.
having a milky iridescence.
Origin of opalescent
1Other words from opalescent
- o·pal·es·cence, noun
- o·pal·es·cent·ly, adverb
Words Nearby opalescent
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How to use opalescent in a sentence
Here’s How She Became a Global CelebrityYet of all these recent portrayals, it’s Emma Corrin’s, in the fourth season of Netflix’s fiction-based-on-fact drama The Crown, that comes closest to capturing Diana’s opalescent mystery.
The opalescent, minty-green louche billows under the ice water droplets.
For a second the lily was enveloped in a milk-white foam, which disappeared, leaving the fluid opalescent.
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show | Robert W. Chambers | February 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBoris plunged in his hand and drew out an exquisite marble thing, blue-veined, rose-tinted, and glistening with opalescent drops.
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show | Robert W. Chambers | February 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe saline tracts between the prisms produce a milky or opalescent appearance.
The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas Mawson
We mounted to the upper deck, under the open sky, with its opalescent tints and shifting clouds to the west.
The Wasted Generation | Owen JohnsonFirst, silvery threads of light began to weave along the bristling ridges of the east and opalescent flecks to glimmer overhead.
The Code of the Mountains | Charles Neville BuckTwo Venetian glass vases on the mantel gave out an opalescent gleam in the twilight.
Molly Brown's Sophomore Days | Nell SpeedWhen a great quantity of gelatin is present the filtrate will be opalescent instead of perfectly clear.
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British Dictionary definitions for opalescent
/ (ˌəʊpəˈlɛsənt) /
having or emitting an iridescence like that of an opal
Derived forms of opalescent
- opalescence, noun
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Scientific definitions for opalescent
[ ō′pə-lĕs′ənt ]
Exhibiting a milky iridescence like that of opal.
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