"filmy" meaning in English

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      "word": "filmily"
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    {
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      "word": "filminess"
    },
    {
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      "word": "filmy fern"
    },
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      "word": "Wilson's filmy fern"
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      "args": {
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        "2": "filmic"
      },
      "expansion": "Doublet of filmic",
      "name": "doublet"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From film + -y. Doublet of filmic.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "filmier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "filmiest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "filmy (comparative filmier, superlative filmiest)",
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Resembling or made of a thin film; gauzy"
      ],
      "id": "en-filmy-en-adj-c-~4Chhy",
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        [
          "film",
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        ],
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          "gauzy",
          "gauzy"
        ]
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    },
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      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Poverty”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 279:",
          "text": "The eyes were small, and of a dead filmy black; they said nothing, even when fixed upon you.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "text": "1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XVI, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt\nOn the following morning the head of Strezlecki Creek was passed and in the dim distance could be seen the filmy blue outlines of Mount Arrowsmith, behind which lay the magnificent Nardoo station."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Covered by (or as if by) a film; hazy"
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "hazy",
          "hazy"
        ]
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    },
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      "glosses": [
        "film-like; similar to a motion picture"
      ],
      "id": "en-filmy-en-adj--RfOWotL",
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        [
          "film",
          "film"
        ],
        [
          "-like",
          "-like"
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          "motion picture",
          "motion picture"
        ]
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɪlmi/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "filmy"
}

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    "English doublets",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms suffixed with -y",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "filmily"
    },
    {
      "word": "filminess"
    },
    {
      "word": "filmy fern"
    },
    {
      "word": "Wilson's filmy fern"
    }
  ],
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      },
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    },
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        "2": "filmic"
      },
      "expansion": "Doublet of filmic",
      "name": "doublet"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From film + -y. Doublet of filmic.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "filmier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "filmiest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
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      "glosses": [
        "Resembling or made of a thin film; gauzy"
      ],
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        [
          "film",
          "film"
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        [
          "gauzy",
          "gauzy"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Poverty”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 279:",
          "text": "The eyes were small, and of a dead filmy black; they said nothing, even when fixed upon you.",
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        },
        {
          "text": "1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XVI, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt\nOn the following morning the head of Strezlecki Creek was passed and in the dim distance could be seen the filmy blue outlines of Mount Arrowsmith, behind which lay the magnificent Nardoo station."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Covered by (or as if by) a film; hazy"
      ],
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        [
          "hazy",
          "hazy"
        ]
      ]
    },
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        "film-like; similar to a motion picture"
      ],
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          "film",
          "film"
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɪlmi/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "filmy"
}