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Filmy

//ˈfɪlmi// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling or made of a thin film; gauzy.
  2. 2
    Covered by (or as if by) a film; hazy.

    "The eyes were small, and of a dead filmy black; they said nothing, even when fixed upon you."

  3. 3
    Filmlike; resembling a motion picture.
Adjective
  1. 1
    so thin as to transmit light wordnet

Etymology

From film + -y. Cognate with Middle Dutch velmich, vilmich (“filmy, membranous”). Doublet of filmic.

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