Iridescent Synonyms

ĭrĭ-dĕsənt
Having a play of lustrous rainbow colors
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. nacreous
  2. opalescent
  3. bright
  4. pearly
  5. prismatic
  6. lustrous
  7. shimmering
  8. colorful
  9. rainbow-colored
  10. kaleidoscopic
  11. multicolored
  12. changeable
  13. margaritaceous
  14. polychromatic
  15. pavonine
  16. pellucid
  17. chatoyant
  18. iridal
  19. shiny
  20. opaline
  21. iridial
  22. versicolor
  23. nacred
  24. shot
  25. pearlescent
  26. pearl-like
  27. pearlish
  28. rainbowlike
  29. rainbowy

Words Related to Iridescent

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.

Related:

  1. electric-blue
  2. irridescent
  3. coppery
  4. iridescence
  5. silvery
  6. emerald-green
  7. grey-blue
  8. red-orange
  9. shimmer
  10. pure-white
  11. orange-red
  12. cobalt-blue
  13. deep blue

Iridescent Sentence Examples

  • The cream colored siding looked iridescent in the moonlight.

  • The happiest specimens of this glass almost rival the wings of butterflies in the brilliancy of their iridescent colours.

  • Most curious of all is the courtship of the males of some species of Salticidae, or jumping spiders, which are decorated with plumes or coloured stripes or iridescent patches.

  • But instead of a rim of darker blue surrounding her irises, they were rimmed by a thick band of iridescent silver.

  • The African golden-moles (Chrysochloris), the desmans or water-moles (Myogale), and the West African Potamogale velox, are remarkable as being the only mammals whose hair reflects those iridescent tints so common in the feathers of tropical birds.

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