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Silkiest vs Milkiest - What's the difference?

silkiest | milkiest |

As adjectives the difference between silkiest and milkiest

is that silkiest is superlative of silky while milkiest is superlative of milky.

silkiest

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (silky)

    • silky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Similar in appearance or texture (especially in softness and smoothness) to silk.
    • cloth with a silky lustre
    a silky wine

    Derived terms

    * silky oak

    References

    * * * * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)

    milkiest

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (milky)

    • Anagrams

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    milky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Resembling milk in color or consistency.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • pails high foaming with a milky flood
  • * Arbuthnot
    • milky juice
  • (color science, informal) Of the black in an image, appearing as dark gray rather than black.
  • (colloquial) Cowardly.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Has friendship such a faint and milky heart?
  • (obsolete) Yielding milk.
  • * Roscommon
    • milky mothers