Word Meanings - OPALESCENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Reflecting a milky or pearly light from the interior; having an opaline play of colors.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OPALESCENT)

• Prismatic
• Iridescent
• opalescent
• polychromatous

Related words: (words related to OPALESCENT)

• IRIDESCENT
  Having colors like the rainbow; exhibiting a play of changeable colors; nacreous; prismatic; as, iridescent glass.
• PRISMATIC; PRISMATICAL
  See PRISM (more info) 1. Resembling, or pertaining to, a prism; as, a prismatic form or cleavage. 2. Separated or distributed by a prism; formed by a prism; as, prismatic colors.
• PRISMATICALLY
  In the form on manner of a prism; by means of a prism.
• OPALESCENT
  Reflecting a milky or pearly light from the interior; having an opaline play of colors.
• DIPRISMATIC
  Doubly prismatic.
• VIRIDESCENT
  Slightly green; greenish.