Those huge metallic boxes you see in the ship are called by the name of containers.
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Metallic
//ˈmɛʈælɪk//
Synonyms for "metallic" (47 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Strong matches (14)
Related words (23)
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1 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
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37 entriesShowing 16 of 37 words.
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2 entriesrelated to
1 entriessimilar
28 entriesShowing 16 of 28 words.
Translations
59 translations across 32 languages.
Asturian
1 entries- metálicu adj (made of metal)
Catalan
2 entries- metàl·lic adj (related to metal)
- metàl·lic adj (made of metal)
Czech
2 entries- kovový adj (related to metal)
- kovový adj (made of metal)
Esperanto
1 entries- metala adj (made of metal)
Finnish
2 entries- metallinen adj (related to metal)
- metallinen adj (made of metal)
French
3 entries- métalisé adj (made of metal)
- métallique adj (related to metal)
- métallique adj (made of metal)
Galician
4 entries- metalizada adj ((of a color) having the appearance of being of polished metal)
- metalizado adj ((of a color) having the appearance of being of polished metal)
- metálico adj (related to metal)
- metálico adj (made of metal)
German
2 entries- metallisch adj (related to metal)
- metallisch adj (made of metal)
Greek
3 entries- μετάλλινος adj (made of metal)
- μεταλλικός adj (related to metal)
- μεταλλικός adj (made of metal)
Hebrew
1 entries- מתכתי adj (made of metal)
Hungarian
1 entries- fémes adj (related to metal)
Irish
2 entries- miotalach adj (related to metal)
- miotalach adj (made of metal)
Italian
1 entries- metallico adj (related to metal)
Japanese
1 entries- メタリック adj (related to metal)
Latin
1 entries- metallicus adj (related to metal)
Lithuanian
1 entries- metalinis adj (made of metal)
Malay
2 entries- logam adj (related to metal)
- logam adj (made of metal)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- metallisk adj (related to metal)
- metallisk adj (made of metal)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- metallisk adj (related to metal)
- metallisk adj (made of metal)
Occitan
2 entries- metallic adj (related to metal)
- metallic adj (made of metal)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- معدن adj (related to metal)
- معدن adj (made of metal)
Pashto
1 entries- زرین adj (made of metal)
Polish
2 entries- metalowy adj (related to metal)
- metalowy adj (made of metal)
Portuguese
4 entries- metalizada adj ((of a color) having the appearance of being of polished metal)
- metalizado adj ((of a color) having the appearance of being of polished metal)
- metálico adj (related to metal)
- metálico adj (made of metal)
Russian
1 entries- металли́ческий adj (made of metal)
Slovak
1 entries- kovový adj (made of metal)
Slovene
1 entries- kovinski adj (made of metal)
Spanish
4 entries- metalizado adj ((of a color) having the appearance of being of polished metal)
- metalífero adj (made of metal)
- metálico adj (related to metal)
- metálico adj (made of metal)
Tagalog
2 entries- metalhin adj (related to metal)
- metalhin adj (made of metal)
Telugu
1 entries- లోహ adj (made of metal)
Ukrainian
3 entries- металевий adj (related to metal)
- металевий adj (made of metal)
- металічний adj (related to metal)
Yoruba
1 entries- irin adj (made of metal)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
Plutonium has a metallic taste.
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Tea, drunk from a new thermos, tastes a little metallic.
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The metallic gate to what seemed to be another universe became the paragon of postmodern Shinto.
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