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metallic

/məˈtæl.ɪk/noun, adjective3 syllables

Metallic means: containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal.

Synonyms for metallic21

adjective, as in containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal

metal, all-metal, aluminiferous, antimonial, argentiferous, auriferous, gold-bearing, bimetal, bimetallic, bronze, gold, golden, gilded, metallike, metal-looking, metallic-looking, silver, tinny

also used for metallic

metalish, metallical, metallous

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Opposites of metallic

nonmetallic

What does metallic mean?3

adjective

1

containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal“a metallic compound”

noun

1

a fabric made of a yarn that is partly or entirely of metal

2

a yarn made partly or entirely of metal

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with metallic?1

two syllables

alec
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Metallic in a sentence

  • Tea, drunk from a new thermos, tastes a little metallic.human600
  • Layla could smell that metallic iron smell of blood.OsoHombre
  • He laughed with a metallic and discordant sound.Eccles17
  • A metallic lid flew around three kilometers and embedded itself in a building.LimeGreenTeknii
  • Lorenzo heard some sort of metallic thud coming from the outside.Amastan
  • He heard some sort of a metallic buzz.Wassnen
  • Arsenic is obtained primarily from arsenopyrite (FeAsS), a mineral with a metallic luster.rul
  • Those huge metallic boxes you see in the ship are called by the name of containers.unknown

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Forms of metallic

as a noun

plural
metallics