VELVETY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does velvety mean? 

• VELVETY (adjective)
  The adjective VELVETY has 2 senses:

1. smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste

2. resembling velvet in having a smooth soft surface

  Familiarity information: VELVETY used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VELVETY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste

Synonyms:

velvet; velvet-textured; velvety

Similar:

smooth (having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Resembling velvet in having a smooth soft surface

Synonyms:

velvet; velvety

Similar:

soft (yielding readily to pressure or weight)

Derivation:

velvet (a silky densely piled fabric with a plain back)

 Context examples 

It has loose-fitted skin that falls in folds on the head and very long, velvety ears.

(Basset Hound, NCI Thesaurus)

In the soft light the distant hills became melted, and the shadows in the valleys and gorges of velvety blackness.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The moderately long pendant ears have a velvety tip.

(English Setter, NCI Thesaurus)

Symptoms include: • Loose joints • Fragile, small blood vessels • Abnormal scar formation and wound healing • Soft, velvety, stretchy skin that bruises easily

(Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, NIH)

I noted Oofty-Oofty, holding the end of a bandage and looking upon the scene, his velvety and luminous eyes glistening in the light like a deer’s eyes, and yet I knew the barbaric devil that lurked in his breast and belied all the softness and tenderness, almost womanly, of his face and form.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He was smiling to himself as he looked up into her virginal face, so innocent, so penetratingly innocent, that its purity seemed always to enter into him, driving out of him all dross and bathing him in some ethereal effulgence that was as cool and soft and velvety as starshine.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

His thin lips, like the dies of a machine, stamped out phrases that cut and stung; or again, pursing caressingly about the inchoate sound they articulated, the thin lips shaped soft and velvety things, mellow phrases of glow and glory, of haunting beauty, reverberant of the mystery and inscrutableness of life; and yet again the thin lips were like a bugle, from which rang the crash and tumult of cosmic strife, phrases that sounded clear as silver, that were luminous as starry spaces, that epitomized the final word of science and yet said something more—the poet's word, the transcendental truth, elusive and without words which could express, and which none the less found expression in the subtle and all but ungraspable connotations of common words.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)