filmyadj.

Brit.

/ˈfɪlmi/, U.S.

/ˈfɪlmi/

Forms: see film n. and -y suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: film n., -y suffix¹.

Etymology: < film n. + -y suffix¹.

1. Membranous; of membranous structure.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily substance > membrane > [adjective]

panniculara1400

webbya1425

membraneous1578

filmy1583

membranous1598

cauly1615

membranaceous1678

membranulous1705

pelliceous1732

membraniform1828

thecal1847

pellicular1853

membranoid1857

thecigerous1860

adventitial1872

theciform1877

thecate1891

theciferous1891

velamentous1891

1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke v. xiv. 234 That filmie and thinne skinne which inwardly compasseth the internall parts.

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. C6 The ventricle..is filmy, and therefore cold, hard, dry, and glutinous.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1665 (1955) III. 399 The [pelican's] lower beake..being filmy stretches to a prodigious widenesse when it devours a greate fish.

1794 European Mag. Nov. 337/2 Within this fine, filmy vesicula, are inclosed four or more series of small longitudinal fibres.

1835 Analyst 2 288 The ultimate forms of organization..consist of a membranous or filmy envelope of extreme tenuity.

1874 Pop. Sci. Mar. 569 These shells are hung at the tree by a neck, longer than the shell, of a kind of filmy substance.

1902 S. Beaty-Pownall ‘Queen’ Cookery Bks. V. (ed. 2) 93 Wrap the joint in the caul or filmy substance any good butcher always sends with lamb.

1974 Flying Sept. 106/2 The..hydrogen gas..is contained in 17 gigantic cotton bags lined with goldbeaters' skin, the filmy outer membrane of a cow's caecum.

2007 H. S. Kim Anal. Drug Delivery in Eye i. 3 The conjunctiva is a thin, opaque, filmy tissue that extends up to the equator of the posterior segment.

2. Of an abstract concept or quality: insubstantial, superficial.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [adjective]

flittingc1374

aerya1398

bottomlessa1413

hollowa1529

flittering1549

wanzing1571

aerial1581

slight1585

flit1590

windy1593

filmy1594

tenuous1597

unsubstantial1597

yeasty1598

thingless1599

airy1600

spare1602

spongy1603

insubstantial1607

baselessa1616

thina1616

insolid1618

insubstantiate1621

tenuious1634

bubble1635

thin-spun1638

subventaneous1646

unsubstanceda1658

whipped1673

aericala1678

huffy1678

blatherya1693

naughty1696

substanceless1784

vapoury1818

aeriform1827

airified1837

blow-away1858

non-substantial1858

unbased1860

evasive1881

stuffless1896

fabricless1905

lighter-than-air1909

1594 J. Sylvester tr. O. de La Noue Profit Imprisonm. sig. B4^v Your tirant God enuying all your blisse Blinds [your eyes] with a filmie vaile of blacke obscurities.

1794 S. T. Coleridge Let. 6 Nov. (1966) I. 128 Vanity her filmy network spread.

1820 W. Hazlitt Lect. Dramatic Lit. 75 A veil of words and filmy abstractions.

1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) II. ix. i. 120 The filmiest evanescence of the feeling has to be..anatomized.

1884 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 29 Oct. 6/5 Let no one be deceived by filmy promises.

1930 D. Goddard Buddha's Golden Path xi. 98 There are filmy ideas of hills and trees and birds and people all about us, moving, changing, growing, dying.

1994 Jrnl. Prop. Managem. July 26/2 Filmy promises of reduced operating costs, energy efficiency, and waste reduction.

2007 J. Barnes Truth i. 21 An item which is neither true nor false does not have a filmy third value—it has no truth-value at all.

3. Of extremely delicate or silky texture; (also) consisting of slender filaments, like gossamer.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > other specific kinds of texture > [adjective] > fine

smalleOE

subtlea1382

subtilea1398

finec1400

tearc1400

delicate?a1425

fine-spuna1555

filmy1604

cypress1605

thin-spun1638

curious1665

filmlike1804

feathery1864

pinpoint1899

1604 M. Drayton Owle sig. E2^v The spyders..in his traine their filmie netting cast.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 30 Another pair of filmy Tiffany long wings.

1694 W. Salmon tr. Y. van Diemerbroeck Anat. Human Bodies (new ed.) i. 458/2 It shews it self through the Filmy Coverings of the Eye-lids.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 65 The filmy Gossamer now flitts no more.

1740 W. Somervile Hobbinol ii. 190 The luxurious Wasp His filmy Pennons struggling flaps in vain.

1800 R. Bloomfield Summer in Farmer's Boy 31 The small dust-colour'd beetle..flirts his filmy wings, and looks around.

1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain iii. xi. 144 It seemed a veil of filmy lawn.

1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxix. 3 Some robe most filmy.

1914 C. Du Fay Robertson Down Year 147 The snow-filled air is like filmy gossamer spangled with silver stars.

1949 M. Williamson First Bk. Bugs 28 Young spiders..shoot out long filmy threads of silk.

1990 Observer 12 Aug. (School's Out Suppl.) 8/3 The light green, filmy stuff is sea lettuce and the straggly bits..bladderwrack.

2009 N. Frankel Stripping Gypsy ii. 13 She removed her shoulder straps and her filmy net dress fell on the floor.

4. Forming a thin outer layer or coating.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > [adjective] > with a thin coating > forming a thin coating

skinny?1541

filmy1628

filmlike1804

skimming1843

1628 H. Wotton Let. 14 Dec. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1685) 441 A little Excrescence..upon the uttermost ball of his Eyes, a filmy matter, like the rudiment of a Pin and Web.

1753 N. Torriano tr. J. Astruc Let. in tr. J. B. L. Chomel Hist. Diss. Gangrenous Sore Throat 94 As these filmy Membranes came away, the Weasand or Throat became freer.

1772 J. Priestley in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 219 The water..had deposited a filmy kind of matter.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxxvii. 344 The area of filmy ice.

1885 R. Buchanan Annan Water iii Encrusting its black sides with a species of filmy salt.

1927 Scotsman 15 Dec. 9/3 It is hoped that the oil, now spread like a filmy covering over several miles of the river, will have become so dispersed as to be harmless.

1996 Washington Post 14 Mar. 15/3 If locks freeze up, release filmy ice by heating the key.

a. Covered with or as if with a film; dim, hazy, clouded.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > dimness or absence of brightness > [adjective]

dima1000

darkOE

troublea1327

palec1385

dullc1430

unclearc1440

unbright1534

cloudy1556

unlight1570

muddy1600

wan1601

opacous1616

filmy1642

illuminous1656

crepuscular1668

dumb1720

rayless1754

opaque1794

veilya1802

turbid1811

unlucent1819

ineffulgent1824

blear1830

unrefulgent1856

subluminous1860

subaqueous1875

shineless1882

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [adjective] > film or web

webbeda1500

filmed1637

filmy1642

horn-eyed1838

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [adjective] > indistinct

dimc1000

blinda1398

undistingued1398

obscure?a1450

undistinct1495

shadowed1588

undistinguishable1600

shady1626

blear1637

filmed1637

indistinguishable1642

crepusculous1646

adumbrated1650

oblite1650

faint1660

monogrammous1678

blurred1701

faintish1712

wispya1717

adumbrant1727

muzzy1744

indistinct1764

fuzzy1778

misty1797

shadowy1797

undistinguished1814

woolly1815

vague1822

furzy1825

mystified1833

slurred1843

feeble1860

smudginga1861

filmy1864

smudgy1865

blurry1884

slurry1937

1642 Taylor's 2nd Pt. Theatre Gods Iudgments vii. 99 Hee shall finde them [sc. the eyes] so waterish, filmy and blear'd with the fumes of Wine, that he shall scarcely see.

1727 P. Frowde Fall of Saguntum ii. i. 25 The glorious Sun, that sets off Nature's Face, Shines unperceive'd by thick and filmy Eyes.

1833 H. Martineau Briery Creek i. 3 The filmy orb of the moon.

1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 132 Gradually the filmy trees defined themselves.

1977 Washington Post 21 July (Style section) d9 Fixing Harris with a steely, albeit filmy, eye, the vindictive male engages in a prolonged series of deadly reprisals.

2015 C. Harvey Evid. Room xxxi. 198 Outside the filmy moon was barely visible behind the shredded clouds.

b. Of mist, haze, etc.: obscuring, concealing.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > darkness or gloom > [adjective] > dim, dark, or obscure > darkening or obscuring

obscuring1594

filmy1691

tenebrificous1714

overcasting1739

darkling1801

tenebrific1825

1691 J. Dryden King Arthur 39 Break up, ye thickning Foggs, and filmy Mists, All that be-lye my Sight, and cheat my Sense.

1799 J. West Tale of Times II. xx. 62 Glide Wrapt in a filmy mist, and scarce descried.

1872 Overland Monthly May 469/2 It was murky with filmy fog-clouds and dust not yet settled to the earth.

1936 ‘A. Gould’ Two Men Fought xvi. 306 The mist was thickening fast... The filmy haze was reaching upwards towards the cliff tops.

2014 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 26 Sept. That heavy downpour had shrouded them in a filmy mist.

Compounds

C1. Forming parasynthetic adjectives, as filmy-eyed, filmy-winged, etc.

ΚΠ

a1822 P. B. Shelley To Night iv, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 155 Thy sweet child Sleep, the filmy-eyed, Murmured like a noon-tide bee.

1860 P. H. Gosse Evenings at Microscope v. 78 Neither of these nor any other ‘winged fowl’ can be compared with many of the filmy-winged Insects.

1898 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 319 The savage notion of the soul as a filmy coloured image.

1909 J. A. Schwartz Wonderful Little Lives i. 4 Filmy-winged mosquitoes flitted out at twilight.

1945 D. Thomas Let. 30 July (1987) 557 The dour and filmy mackintoshed bar-flies who work, or don't, with me.

1998 Daily News (Galveston, Texas) 6 Mar. b6/4 There are all of the earmarks of violence..confronting the filmy dressed and equally violent girlfriend.

2002 N.Y. Times 21 Nov. (Circuits section) g1/4 A filmy-eyed parakeet from the pet department at Grant's.

C2.

filmy fern n. any of various small ferns of the genus Hymenophyllum and related genera of the family Hymenophyllaceae, having thin, translucent fronds which form sheets on moist rocks, tree trunks, and other surfaces; cf. film-fern n. at film n. Compounds 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > ferns > [noun] > other ferns

mountain parsley1578

female fern1597

rock parsley1597

spleenwort1597

marsh fern1686

prickly fern1764

parsley fern1777

sensitive fern1780

lady fern1783

stone-brake1796

mountain fern1800

rock brake1802

walking leaf1811

todea1813

shield-fern1814

Woodsia1815

mangemange1817

cinnamon fern1818

climbing fern1818

bladder-fern1828

king fern1829

filmy fern1830

ostrich fern1833

New York fern1843

mokimoki1844

rhizocarp1852

film-fern1855

nardoo1860

gymnogram1861

holly-fern1861

limestone-polypody1861

elk-horn1865

Gleichenia1865

lizard's herb1866

cliff brake1867

kidney fern1867

Christmas fern1873

Prince of Wales feathers1873

Christmas shield fern1878

buckler-fern1882

crape-fern1882

stag-horn1882

ladder fern1884

oleander fern1884

stag fern1884

resam1889

lip-fern1890

coral-fern1898

bamboo fern1930

pteroid1949

fern-gale-

1830 W. J. Hooker Brit. Flora 450 (heading) Hymenophyllum. Sm. Filmy-fern.

1882 Garden 5 Aug. 111/3 The Filmy Fern House in the Pine-apple Nursery.

1944 Amer. Fern Jrnl. 34 3 Minute mosslike filmy ferns cover the lower branches and the trunks of the canopy-forming trees.

1971 Castanea 36 93 The pineland hammocks also have a conspicuously different cryptogamic flora: at one time they had an abundant cover of filmy-ferns (Trichomanes punctatum, lineolatum, krausii) near lime sinks.

2015 Times 8 Dec. 65/4 One of the most notable effects of all that rainfall is a lush rainforest of wet oak woodlands, home to some of Britain's rarest ferns, such as Wilson's Filmy-Fern.

† filmy-leaf n. Obsolete = filmy fern n.

ΚΠ

1794 J. E. Smith Eng. Bot. III. 162 (heading) Hymenophyllum Tunbridgense. Tunbridge Filmy-Leaf.

1836 T. Castle Linnæan Artific. Syst. Bot. 27/1 Specimens [of the order Filices] are furnished by several plants, as the Common Polypody, the Common Hart's-tongue, the True Maidenhair, the Tunbridge Filmy-Leaf, [etc.].

Derivatives

ˈfilmily adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [adverb] > indistinctly

thicklyc1400

indistinctly1580

obscurelyc1586

veiledly1646

dimly1667

blindly1686

shadowyc1804

mistily1813

hazily1818

filmily1853

shadowly1866

blurrily1868

vaguely1871

smudgedly1889

faintly1892

1853 C. Beecher Rev. ‘Spiritual Manifestations’ i. ii. 14 In space two brains filmily meshed together by odylic threads may virtually unite to form a double cerebral unit.

1890 Harper's Mag. Oct. 803/2 Something that filmily wavers before their senses.

1929 Vogue Mar. 102/3 It is the effect of a glorified stocking, filmily sheer and without a particle of sheen.

2004 D. A. Westbrook City of Gold i. 22 Their personnel display a filmily veiled lack of genuine egalitarian sentiment.

ˈfilminess n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > dimness or absence of brightness > [noun]

dimnessc825

dimc1430

dunnessc1475

dullness1567

dimmedness1596

faintness1651

filminess1727

opacity1794

tenuity1794

the world > matter > light > transparency or translucence > opacity > [noun]

cloudiness1594

opacity1634

umbrosity1646

opaqueness1647

opacousness1656

filminess1870

intransparency1902

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Filminess.

1791 J. Ireland Hogarth Illustr. I. 192 There is an opacity, a stare without sight, a sort of filminess, exactly as you describe.

1870 H. Macmillan Bible Teachings xiii. 262 The milk-white filminess of the onyx.

1960 Pop. Mech. June 80 Meteorologists will see before them the entire image of the clouds,..bringing the promise or threat of waters..or snows, or a sunlit filminess of beauty.

2010 Guardian (Nexis) 12 May 14 The filminess of the vest layer is essential for showing a bit of breast curvature.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	filmy
释义	filmyadj. Brit. /ˈfɪlmi/, U.S. /ˈfɪlmi/ Forms: see film n. and -y suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: film n., -y suffix¹. Etymology: < film n. + -y suffix¹. 1. Membranous; of membranous structure. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily substance > membrane > [adjective] panniculara1400 webbya1425 membraneous1578 filmy1583 membranous1598 cauly1615 membranaceous1678 membranulous1705 pelliceous1732 membraniform1828 thecal1847 pellicular1853 membranoid1857 thecigerous1860 adventitial1872 theciform1877 thecate1891 theciferous1891 velamentous1891 1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke v. xiv. 234 That filmie and thinne skinne which inwardly compasseth the internall parts. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. C6 The ventricle..is filmy, and therefore cold, hard, dry, and glutinous. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1665 (1955) III. 399 The [pelican's] lower beake..being filmy stretches to a prodigious widenesse when it devours a greate fish. 1794 European Mag. Nov. 337/2 Within this fine, filmy vesicula, are inclosed four or more series of small longitudinal fibres. 1835 Analyst 2 288 The ultimate forms of organization..consist of a membranous or filmy envelope of extreme tenuity. 1874 Pop. Sci. Mar. 569 These shells are hung at the tree by a neck, longer than the shell, of a kind of filmy substance. 1902 S. Beaty-Pownall ‘Queen’ Cookery Bks. V. (ed. 2) 93 Wrap the joint in the caul or filmy substance any good butcher always sends with lamb. 1974 Flying Sept. 106/2 The..hydrogen gas..is contained in 17 gigantic cotton bags lined with goldbeaters' skin, the filmy outer membrane of a cow's caecum. 2007 H. S. Kim Anal. Drug Delivery in Eye i. 3 The conjunctiva is a thin, opaque, filmy tissue that extends up to the equator of the posterior segment. 2. Of an abstract concept or quality: insubstantial, superficial. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [adjective] flittingc1374 aerya1398 bottomlessa1413 hollowa1529 flittering1549 wanzing1571 aerial1581 slight1585 flit1590 windy1593 filmy1594 tenuous1597 unsubstantial1597 yeasty1598 thingless1599 airy1600 spare1602 spongy1603 insubstantial1607 baselessa1616 thina1616 insolid1618 insubstantiate1621 tenuious1634 bubble1635 thin-spun1638 subventaneous1646 unsubstanceda1658 whipped1673 aericala1678 huffy1678 blatherya1693 naughty1696 substanceless1784 vapoury1818 aeriform1827 airified1837 blow-away1858 non-substantial1858 unbased1860 evasive1881 stuffless1896 fabricless1905 lighter-than-air1909 1594 J. Sylvester tr. O. de La Noue Profit Imprisonm. sig. B4^v Your tirant God enuying all your blisse Blinds [your eyes] with a filmie vaile of blacke obscurities. 1794 S. T. Coleridge Let. 6 Nov. (1966) I. 128 Vanity her filmy network spread. 1820 W. Hazlitt Lect. Dramatic Lit. 75 A veil of words and filmy abstractions. 1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) II. ix. i. 120 The filmiest evanescence of the feeling has to be..anatomized. 1884 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 29 Oct. 6/5 Let no one be deceived by filmy promises. 1930 D. Goddard Buddha's Golden Path xi. 98 There are filmy ideas of hills and trees and birds and people all about us, moving, changing, growing, dying. 1994 Jrnl. Prop. Managem. July 26/2 Filmy promises of reduced operating costs, energy efficiency, and waste reduction. 2007 J. Barnes Truth i. 21 An item which is neither true nor false does not have a filmy third value—it has no truth-value at all. 3. Of extremely delicate or silky texture; (also) consisting of slender filaments, like gossamer. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > other specific kinds of texture > [adjective] > fine smalleOE subtlea1382 subtilea1398 finec1400 tearc1400 delicate?a1425 fine-spuna1555 filmy1604 cypress1605 thin-spun1638 curious1665 filmlike1804 feathery1864 pinpoint1899 1604 M. Drayton Owle sig. E2^v The spyders..in his traine their filmie netting cast. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 30 Another pair of filmy Tiffany long wings. 1694 W. Salmon tr. Y. van Diemerbroeck Anat. Human Bodies (new ed.) i. 458/2 It shews it self through the Filmy Coverings of the Eye-lids. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 65 The filmy Gossamer now flitts no more. View more context for this quotation 1740 W. Somervile Hobbinol ii. 190 The luxurious Wasp His filmy Pennons struggling flaps in vain. 1800 R. Bloomfield Summer in Farmer's Boy 31 The small dust-colour'd beetle..flirts his filmy wings, and looks around. 1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain iii. xi. 144 It seemed a veil of filmy lawn. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxix. 3 Some robe most filmy. 1914 C. Du Fay Robertson Down Year 147 The snow-filled air is like filmy gossamer spangled with silver stars. 1949 M. Williamson First Bk. Bugs 28 Young spiders..shoot out long filmy threads of silk. 1990 Observer 12 Aug. (School's Out Suppl.) 8/3 The light green, filmy stuff is sea lettuce and the straggly bits..bladderwrack. 2009 N. Frankel Stripping Gypsy ii. 13 She removed her shoulder straps and her filmy net dress fell on the floor. 4. Forming a thin outer layer or coating. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > [adjective] > with a thin coating > forming a thin coating skinny?1541 filmy1628 filmlike1804 skimming1843 1628 H. Wotton Let. 14 Dec. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1685) 441 A little Excrescence..upon the uttermost ball of his Eyes, a filmy matter, like the rudiment of a Pin and Web. 1753 N. Torriano tr. J. Astruc Let. in tr. J. B. L. Chomel Hist. Diss. Gangrenous Sore Throat 94 As these filmy Membranes came away, the Weasand or Throat became freer. 1772 J. Priestley in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 219 The water..had deposited a filmy kind of matter. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxxvii. 344 The area of filmy ice. 1885 R. Buchanan Annan Water iii Encrusting its black sides with a species of filmy salt. 1927 Scotsman 15 Dec. 9/3 It is hoped that the oil, now spread like a filmy covering over several miles of the river, will have become so dispersed as to be harmless. 1996 Washington Post 14 Mar. 15/3 If locks freeze up, release filmy ice by heating the key. 5. a. Covered with or as if with a film; dim, hazy, clouded. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > dimness or absence of brightness > [adjective] dima1000 darkOE troublea1327 palec1385 dullc1430 unclearc1440 unbright1534 cloudy1556 unlight1570 muddy1600 wan1601 opacous1616 filmy1642 illuminous1656 crepuscular1668 dumb1720 rayless1754 opaque1794 veilya1802 turbid1811 unlucent1819 ineffulgent1824 blear1830 unrefulgent1856 subluminous1860 subaqueous1875 shineless1882 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [adjective] > film or web webbeda1500 filmed1637 filmy1642 horn-eyed1838 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [adjective] > indistinct dimc1000 blinda1398 undistingued1398 obscure?a1450 undistinct1495 shadowed1588 undistinguishable1600 shady1626 blear1637 filmed1637 indistinguishable1642 crepusculous1646 adumbrated1650 oblite1650 faint1660 monogrammous1678 blurred1701 faintish1712 wispya1717 adumbrant1727 muzzy1744 indistinct1764 fuzzy1778 misty1797 shadowy1797 undistinguished1814 woolly1815 vague1822 furzy1825 mystified1833 slurred1843 feeble1860 smudginga1861 filmy1864 smudgy1865 blurry1884 slurry1937 1642 Taylor's 2nd Pt. Theatre Gods Iudgments vii. 99 Hee shall finde them [sc. the eyes] so waterish, filmy and blear'd with the fumes of Wine, that he shall scarcely see. 1727 P. Frowde Fall of Saguntum ii. i. 25 The glorious Sun, that sets off Nature's Face, Shines unperceive'd by thick and filmy Eyes. 1833 H. Martineau Briery Creek i. 3 The filmy orb of the moon. 1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 132 Gradually the filmy trees defined themselves. 1977 Washington Post 21 July (Style section) d9 Fixing Harris with a steely, albeit filmy, eye, the vindictive male engages in a prolonged series of deadly reprisals. 2015 C. Harvey Evid. Room xxxi. 198 Outside the filmy moon was barely visible behind the shredded clouds. b. Of mist, haze, etc.: obscuring, concealing. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > darkness or gloom > [adjective] > dim, dark, or obscure > darkening or obscuring obscuring1594 filmy1691 tenebrificous1714 overcasting1739 darkling1801 tenebrific1825 1691 J. Dryden King Arthur 39 Break up, ye thickning Foggs, and filmy Mists, All that be-lye my Sight, and cheat my Sense. 1799 J. West Tale of Times II. xx. 62 Glide Wrapt in a filmy mist, and scarce descried. 1872 Overland Monthly May 469/2 It was murky with filmy fog-clouds and dust not yet settled to the earth. 1936 ‘A. Gould’ Two Men Fought xvi. 306 The mist was thickening fast... The filmy haze was reaching upwards towards the cliff tops. 2014 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 26 Sept. That heavy downpour had shrouded them in a filmy mist. Compounds C1. Forming parasynthetic adjectives, as filmy-eyed, filmy-winged, etc. ΚΠ a1822 P. B. Shelley To Night iv, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 155 Thy sweet child Sleep, the filmy-eyed, Murmured like a noon-tide bee. 1860 P. H. Gosse Evenings at Microscope v. 78 Neither of these nor any other ‘winged fowl’ can be compared with many of the filmy-winged Insects. 1898 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 319 The savage notion of the soul as a filmy coloured image. 1909 J. A. Schwartz Wonderful Little Lives i. 4 Filmy-winged mosquitoes flitted out at twilight. 1945 D. Thomas Let. 30 July (1987) 557 The dour and filmy mackintoshed bar-flies who work, or don't, with me. 1998 Daily News (Galveston, Texas) 6 Mar. b6/4 There are all of the earmarks of violence..confronting the filmy dressed and equally violent girlfriend. 2002 N.Y. Times 21 Nov. (Circuits section) g1/4 A filmy-eyed parakeet from the pet department at Grant's. C2. filmy fern n. any of various small ferns of the genus Hymenophyllum and related genera of the family Hymenophyllaceae, having thin, translucent fronds which form sheets on moist rocks, tree trunks, and other surfaces; cf. film-fern n. at film n. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > ferns > [noun] > other ferns mountain parsley1578 female fern1597 rock parsley1597 spleenwort1597 marsh fern1686 prickly fern1764 parsley fern1777 sensitive fern1780 lady fern1783 stone-brake1796 mountain fern1800 rock brake1802 walking leaf1811 todea1813 shield-fern1814 Woodsia1815 mangemange1817 cinnamon fern1818 climbing fern1818 bladder-fern1828 king fern1829 filmy fern1830 ostrich fern1833 New York fern1843 mokimoki1844 rhizocarp1852 film-fern1855 nardoo1860 gymnogram1861 holly-fern1861 limestone-polypody1861 elk-horn1865 Gleichenia1865 lizard's herb1866 cliff brake1867 kidney fern1867 Christmas fern1873 Prince of Wales feathers1873 Christmas shield fern1878 buckler-fern1882 crape-fern1882 stag-horn1882 ladder fern1884 oleander fern1884 stag fern1884 resam1889 lip-fern1890 coral-fern1898 bamboo fern1930 pteroid1949 fern-gale- 1830 W. J. Hooker Brit. Flora 450 (heading) Hymenophyllum. Sm. Filmy-fern. 1882 Garden 5 Aug. 111/3 The Filmy Fern House in the Pine-apple Nursery. 1944 Amer. Fern Jrnl. 34 3 Minute mosslike filmy ferns cover the lower branches and the trunks of the canopy-forming trees. 1971 Castanea 36 93 The pineland hammocks also have a conspicuously different cryptogamic flora: at one time they had an abundant cover of filmy-ferns (Trichomanes punctatum, lineolatum, krausii) near lime sinks. 2015 Times 8 Dec. 65/4 One of the most notable effects of all that rainfall is a lush rainforest of wet oak woodlands, home to some of Britain's rarest ferns, such as Wilson's Filmy-Fern. † filmy-leaf n. Obsolete = filmy fern n. ΚΠ 1794 J. E. Smith Eng. Bot. III. 162 (heading) Hymenophyllum Tunbridgense. Tunbridge Filmy-Leaf. 1836 T. Castle Linnæan Artific. Syst. Bot. 27/1 Specimens [of the order Filices] are furnished by several plants, as the Common Polypody, the Common Hart's-tongue, the True Maidenhair, the Tunbridge Filmy-Leaf, [etc.]. Derivatives ˈfilmily adv. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [adverb] > indistinctly thicklyc1400 indistinctly1580 obscurelyc1586 veiledly1646 dimly1667 blindly1686 shadowyc1804 mistily1813 hazily1818 filmily1853 shadowly1866 blurrily1868 vaguely1871 smudgedly1889 faintly1892 1853 C. Beecher Rev. ‘Spiritual Manifestations’ i. ii. 14 In space two brains filmily meshed together by odylic threads may virtually unite to form a double cerebral unit. 1890 Harper's Mag. Oct. 803/2 Something that filmily wavers before their senses. 1929 Vogue Mar. 102/3 It is the effect of a glorified stocking, filmily sheer and without a particle of sheen. 2004 D. A. Westbrook City of Gold i. 22 Their personnel display a filmily veiled lack of genuine egalitarian sentiment. ˈfilminess n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > dimness or absence of brightness > [noun] dimnessc825 dimc1430 dunnessc1475 dullness1567 dimmedness1596 faintness1651 filminess1727 opacity1794 tenuity1794 the world > matter > light > transparency or translucence > opacity > [noun] cloudiness1594 opacity1634 umbrosity1646 opaqueness1647 opacousness1656 filminess1870 intransparency1902 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Filminess. 1791 J. Ireland Hogarth Illustr. I. 192 There is an opacity, a stare without sight, a sort of filminess, exactly as you describe. 1870 H. Macmillan Bible Teachings xiii. 262 The milk-white filminess of the onyx. 1960 Pop. Mech. June 80 Meteorologists will see before them the entire image of the clouds,..bringing the promise or threat of waters..or snows, or a sunlit filminess of beauty. 2010 Guardian (Nexis) 12 May 14 The filminess of the vest layer is essential for showing a bit of breast curvature. 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