satiny, sleek, silken, silky, silklike, slick
(adjective) having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; “glossy auburn hair”; “satiny gardenia petals”; “sleek black fur”; “silken eyelashes”; “silky skin”; “a silklike fabric”; “slick seals and otters”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
silken (not comparable)
Made of silk.
Having a smooth, soft, or light texture, like that of silk; suggestive of silk.
(figuratively, of speech, singing, oratory, etc.) Smoothly uttered; flowing, subtle, or convincing in presentation.
Dressed in silk.
• (made of silk): seric (rare)
silken (third-person singular simple present silkens, present participle silkening, simple past and past participle silkened)
(transitive) To render silken or silklike.
• Elkins, Kinsel, Lesnik, inkles, k-lines, klines, likens
Source: Wiktionary
Silk"en, a. Etym: [AS. seolcen, seolocen.]
1. Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; as, silken cloth; a silken veil.
2. Fig.: Soft; delicate; tender; smooth; as, silken language. "Silken terms precise." Shak.
3. Dressed in silk. "A . . . silken wanton." Shak.
Silk"en, v. t.
Definition: To render silken or silklike. Dyer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 February 2025
(noun) an advantageous purchase; “she got a bargain at the auction”; “the stock was a real buy at that price”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
