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filmy

/ˈfɪlmi/

filmy adjective: resembling or made of a thin film; gauzy.

Adjective

filmy (comparative filmier, superlative filmiest)

  1. Resembling or made of a thin film; gauzy.
  2. Covered by (or as if by) a film; hazy.
    • The eyes were small, and of a dead filmy black; they said nothing, even when fixed upon you.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Poverty”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 279
    • On the following morning the head of Strezlecki Creek was passed and in the dim distance could be seen the filmy blue outlines of Mount Arrowsmith, behind which lay the magnificent Nardoo station.1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XVI...
  3. Filmlike; resembling a motion picture.

filmy meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

filmy in Bengali

filmy, filmic
ফিল্মি philmi

filmy in Malayalam

അഭ്രസമാനമായ, സപടലമായ, പാടപോലുള്ള, പാട മൂടിയ

Forms of filmy

comparativefilmier
superlativefilmiest

Origin of filmy

From film + -y. Cognate with Middle Dutch velmich, vilmich (“filmy, membranous”). Doublet of filmic.

Words formed from filmy

Phrases with filmy

Questions about filmy

What does filmy mean?
Filmy means resembling or made of a thin film; gauzy.
What is filmy in Bengali?
Filmy in Bengali is ফিল্মি (philmi). See Filmy meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is filmy?
Filmy is an adjective.
How do you pronounce filmy?
Filmy is pronounced /ˈfɪlmi/.

Words near filmy in the dictionary

  1. filmwork
  2. filmworks
  3. filmworthy
  4. filmwright
  5. filmwrights
  6. filmy
  7. filmy fern
  8. filmy ferns
  9. filmzine
  10. filmzines
  11. filo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: filmy (page history and authors); ফিল্মি (Bengali) (page history and authors); filmy (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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