Silkier vs Milkier - What's the difference?
silkier | milkier |
(silky)
Similar in appearance or texture (especially in softness and smoothness) to silk.
(milky)
Resembling milk in color or consistency.
* Alexander Pope
* Arbuthnot
(color science, informal) Of the black in an image, appearing as dark gray rather than black.
(colloquial) Cowardly.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Yielding milk.
* Roscommon
As adjectives the difference between silkier and milkier
is that silkier is (silky) while milkier is (milky).silkier
English
Adjective
(head)silky
English
Adjective
(er)- cloth with a silky lustre
- a silky wine
Derived terms
* silky oakReferences
* * * * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)milkier
English
Adjective
(head)milky
English
Adjective
(er)- pails high foaming with a milky flood
- milky juice
- Has friendship such a faint and milky heart?
- milky mothers