Metallic Synonyms and Antonyms

mĭ-tălĭk
Made of metal
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. hard
  2. rocklike
  3. fusible
  4. -ory
  5. iron
  6. leaden
  7. silvery
  8. golden
  9. tinny
  10. metal
  11. stannic
  12. metallurgic
  13. mineral
  14. geologic
Antonyms:
  1. nonmetallic
Suggestive of metal; said especially of sound
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. ringing
  2. resounding
  3. resonant
  4. trumpet-tongued
  5. clanging
  6. clangorous

Words Related to Metallic

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Metallic Sentence Examples

  • The water was cool and had a metallic taste.

  • Moonlight and darkness alike bent and danced around him, surrounding him in a hazy metallic shimmer.

  • Metallic cobalt may be obtained by reduction of the oxide or chloride in a current of hydrogen at a red heat, or by heating the oxalate, under a layer of powdered glass.

  • On heating in hydrogen, ammonia or carbon monoxide, or with carbon or sodium, it is reduced to the metallic state.

  • It reduces many metallic oxides, such as lead monoxide and cupric oxide, and decomposes water at a red heat.

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