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MILKY
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Irregular inflected forms: milkier , milkiest
I. (adjective)
Comparative and superlative
Comparative: milkier
Superlative: milkiest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Resembling milk in color; not clear
Example:
milky glass
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
opaque (not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight)
Derivation:
milk (a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings)
Context examples:
Late in the afternoon he followed a stream, milky with lime, which ran through sparse patches of rush-grass.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Bill staggered on through the milky water. He did not look around.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
He cowered in the midst of the milky water, as though the vastness were pressing in upon him with overwhelming force, brutally crushing him with its complacent awfulness.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
The sister, Catherine, was a slender, worldly girl of about thirty with a solid sticky bob of red hair and a complexion powdered milky white.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
