filmy

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filmy

  • /ˈfɪlmi/

Where it comes from

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

adjective filmier · 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.
  3. Filmlike; resembling a motion picture.

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