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adjective:
- manufacturing a display of lustrous, rainbowlike colors: an iridescent oil slick; iridescent plumage.
- Brilliant, lustrous, or colorful in place or appearance: "The prelude was since iridescent as a prism in a morning area” ( Carson McCullers).
- yielding a display of lustrous, rainbow-like colors; prismatic.
- Brilliant, lustrous, or colorful.
- Having colors just like the rainbow; displaying a play of changeable colors; nacreous; prismatic. See iridescence.
- differing in shade when present in different lights or from different angles
- having a play of lustrous rainbow colors
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others:
- Exhibiting or offering colors like those for the rainbow; gleaming or shimmering with rainbow colors; more generally speaking, glittering with various colors which change based on the light where they've been viewed, regardless of just what the colors tend to be; lustrously versicolor; of changeable metallic sheen, as certain birds, pests, nutrients, glass, fabrics, etc.
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Definition for "iridescent"
- manufacturing a display of lustrous, rainbowlike colors: an…
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Sentence for "iridescent"
- Also called iridescent shark catfish, Pangasius…
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Quotes for "iridescent"
- "No bubble is so iridescent or…"
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Synonym for "iridescent"
- nacreous
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Antonym for "iridescent"
- dull
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Phrases for "iridescent"
- so iridescent
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Rhyme for "iridescent"
- Crescent
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Cross Reference for "iridescent"
- iridescent glass
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Equivalent for "iridescent"
- colourful
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Form for "iridescent"
- iridescently
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Same Context for "iridescent"
- translucent
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Variant for "iridescent"
- iridescence
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Urban Dictionary for "iridescent"
- the traditional term would be–adjective1.displaying a…
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