milky

/'milki/

Thân thiện

The baby drinks from a milky white bottle.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Resembling milk in color or appearance: Having a white or pale, somewhat opaque color similar to that of milk.
   • Containing or mixed with milk: Having milk as a component.
   • Weak, timid, or gentle: (Figurative, informal) Characterized by a lack of strength or forcefulness.

Usage and Examples

• Describing color/appearance:
  • The morning sky had a milky haze.
  • She prefers milky quartz over the clear variety.
• Containing milk:
  • He likes his coffee milky.
  • The recipe creates a milky sauce.
• Figurative use (weak/gentle):
  • His milky demeanor made it hard for him to be assertive. (This usage is less common.)

Advanced Usage

• "Milky way": (Proper noun) The galaxy containing our solar system, appearing as a faint, broad band of milky light in the night sky.
  • We gazed at the stars in the Milky Way.
• To turn/go milky: To become cloudy or opaque.
  • The varnish turned milky when it got damp.

Variants and Related Words

• Milkiness (noun): The quality or state of being milky.
  • The milkiness of the liquid made it impossible to see through.
• Milked (verb): Past tense of 'to milk'; not a direct variant of 'milky'.

Synonyms

• Opaque: Not transparent or translucent.
• Cloudy: Full of or covered with clouds; not clear.
• Lacteal: Relating to or resembling milk.
• Pallid: Pale, typically because of poor health.

Antonyms

• Clear: Transparent; unclouded.
• Transparent: Allowing light to pass through so that objects can be distinctly seen.

Related Phrases and Idioms

• Milky-white: A compound adjective describing a pure, opaque white color.
  • She wore a necklace of milky-white pearls.
• The Milky Way: The proper name for our galaxy. (Note: This is a fixed astronomical term, not an idiom using 'milky' descriptively).

Học thuật

Adjective

1. resembling milk in color not clear
   • milky glass

Từ đồng nghĩa

• milklike
• whitish