Definitions for velvety

velvety vel·vet·y

Spelling: [vel-vi-tee]
IPA: /ˈvɛl vɪ ti/

Velvety is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in velvety (eeltvvy).

Definitions for velvety

adjective

  1. suggestive of or resembling velvet; smooth; soft:
  2. (of liquor) smooth-tasting; mild; mellow:

Origin of velvety

First recorded in 1745-55; velvet + -y1

Examples for velvety

The trees were all uninjured; the carpet of velvety moss was undefiled by blood.

Fruit clothed with velvety down, large; stone rough-wrinkled.

His velvety smooth baritone is among the most imitated but never quite duplicated.

It gives the soup a velvety body, almost as if it were enriched with cream, without contributing a taste.

Still, nothing quite satisfies the way a rich, velvety soup does.

Its tone was velvety in its richness, nor was there the least inflection of astonishment in its tone.

It was dark; the stars were shining in a sky of velvety blueness.

It was a clear, velvety night, and still, after the wind of the day.

Slowly the fingers would start to move and scratch the enormous soft skull and velvety ears.

Finally home, with her family close and darkness falling, Kamila settled down on a velvety pillow in her living room.

Word Value for velvety
Scrable

16

Words with friends

18

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