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velvetbreast | velveteen | velveting | velvetleaf | velvetweed | velvety | velvety-furred | velvety-haired | velvety-plumaged | velvety-skinned | vena

velvety

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Adjective
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vel=vet=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

velvetya. 
     Made of velvet, or like velvet; soft; smooth; delicate.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

velvety

attenuate, attenuated, buffed, burnished, cottony, dainty, delicate, downy, feathery, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained, finespun, finished, flossy, fluffy, furbished, furry, fuzzy, gauzy, glace, glassy, glazed, gleaming, glossy, gossamer, gossamery, hirsute, lacquered, nappy, peachy, pinnate, plush, plushy, polished, pubescent, refined, rubbed, satin, satinlike, satiny, sericeous, shellacked, shiny, silken, silklike, silky, sleek, slick, smooth, soft, soft as silk, thin-spun, varnished, velutinous, velvetlike, wiredrawn

ROGET THESAURUS

velvety

Smoothness

N smoothness, polish, gloss, lubricity, lubrication, down, velvet, velure, silk, satin, velveteen, velour, velours, velumen, glass, ice, slide, bowling green, asphalt, wood pavement, flagstone, flags, roller, steam roller, lawn roller, rolling pin, rolling mill, sand paper, emery paper, emery cloth, sander, flat iron, sad iron, burnisher, turpentine and beeswax, polish, shoe polish, lapidary, lapidary, lapidarian, smooth, polished, leiodermatous, slick, velutinous, even, level, plane, sleek, glossy, silken, silky, lanate, downy, velvety, glabrous, slippery, glassy, lubricous, oily, soft, unwrinkled, smooth as glass, smooth as ice, smooth as monumental alabaster, smooth as velvet, smooth as oil, slippery as an eel, woolly, smooth as silk, slippery as coonshit on a pump handle, slippery as a greased pig.

Roughness

N roughness, tooth, grain, texture, ripple, asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity, arborescence, pilosity, brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet, fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi, lovelock, beaucatcher, curl paper, goatee, papillote, scalp lock, plumage, plumosity, plume, panache, crest, feather, tuft, fringe, toupee, wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down, byssus, moss, bur, fluff, knot (convolution), rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly, knotted, rugged, rugose, rugous, knurly, asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn, craggy, cragged, crankling, scraggy, prickly, arborescent, leafy, well-wooded, feathery, plumose, plumigerous, laciniate, laciniform, laciniose, pappose, pileous, pilose, trichogenous, trichoid, tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute, crinose, crinite, bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged, fringed, befringed, setous, setose, setaceous, like quills upon the fretful porcupine, rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear, downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly, lanate, lanated, lanuginous, lanuginose, tomentose, fluffy, against the grain, cabello luengo y corto el seso.


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