metallic

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /mɪˈtæl.ɪk/    美 /məˈtæl.ɪk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A metallic color.
    — As Robert Clergerie, whose unisex Popée shoe comes in an array of pastels and eye-popping metallics, explained the attraction, “It gives manhood to women.”
形容词 adj.
  1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of metal.
    — The Lethrblaka's blood, to Eragon's astonishment, was a metallic blue-green, not unlike the verdigris that forms on aged copper.
  2. Made of or containing metal.
    — […] and, lo ! a palace towering ſeems, / With Parian pillars and metallic beams.
  3. Harsh, as if coming from two metals striking one another.
    — No sooner had these syllables passed my lips, than—as if a shield of brass had indeed, at the moment, fallen heavily upon a floor of silver—I became aware of a distinct, hollow, metallic and clangorous, yet apparently muffled reverberation.
  4. Having the appearance of being of polished metal.

词形变化

more metallic comparative most metallic superlative metallick alternative,obsolete metallics plural metallick alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
metalish metallical metallous
相关词
metal

词源

词源 1
From Latin metallicus, from metallum (“metal”), from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon). Equivalent to metal + -ic.
词源 2
From Latin metallicus, from metallum (“metal”), from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon). Equivalent to metal + -ic.
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