pillowy

[pil-oh-ee]

adjective

1. pillowlike; soft; yielding.

   a pillowy carpet.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pillowy¹

First recorded in 1790–1800; pillow + -y ¹

Example Sentences

To capture that dynamic, she produced the album not with her longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff – whose pillowy productions defined the sounds of Midnights, and Tortured Poets Department – but with Swedish pop masterminds Max Martin and Shellback, who previously worked with Swift on hits like Shake It Off and I Knew You Were Trouble.

From BBC

Other songs are more straightforward – Just Two Girls is a warm and nostalgic reflection on friendship, and Passenger Seat is all pillowy melancholy as Rowsell recalls a road trip with an ex.

From BBC

Ross rests with those thoughts on her pillowy bed, then smiles broadly.

From Salon

But then there’s that gently insistent groove and that pillowy electric piano.

From Los Angeles Times

“It’s not clocking to you that I’m standing on business,” he tells a photographer in one clip that went viral last month — so viral, in fact, that Bieber excerpts it on “Swag,” which puts his luscious crooning over spacey, cooled-out grooves full of pillowy synths, twanging electric guitars and reverbed chillwave-’80s beats.

From Los Angeles Times