[ UK /ˌə‍ʊpəlˈɛsənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having a play of lustrous rainbow colors
    a milky opalescent (or opaline) luster
    nacreous (or pearlescent) clouds looking like mother-of-pearl
    an iridescent oil slick
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How To Use opalescent In A Sentence

  • But you aren't paying for the function, you're paying for the design, and who amongst us does not want to turn our kitchen into the microcosmic eating lounge of Aperture Science, with helpful (albeit homicidal) recycling eggs (oviposited by glorious GLaDOS herself) pristinely hovering about, electronically warbling invitations to deposit our spare cans, or perhaps just our spleens, in their plastic, opalescent bellies? Boing Boing
  • A snow-scape in almost permanent semi-opalescent darkness decentres the authority of vision and brings into the foreground the sonic environment.
  • Peter Carl Fabergé designer Mikhail Perkhin, workmaster Imperial Blue Serpent Egg Gold, blue guilloche enamel, opalescent white enamel, diamonds, sapphires 'Artistic Luxury': 100-Year-Old Bling
  • The sun was not idle, and the steaming thaw washed the mud and foulness from the bergs till they blazed like heaped diamonds in the brightness, or shimmered opalescent-blue. CHAPTER 24
  • Color trends on the horizon include the significant rise in the use of color ‘effects’ like metallics, opalescents and colors that change depending on the light sources.
  • a milky opalescent (or opaline) luster
  • They favour tiny miniskirts and opaquely opalescent tights, and have the ice-eyed look of Natashas and Laras who might at the drop of a dollar give a man more trouble than he could conceivably imagine.
  • My opalescent kneecaps are somewhat bruised, and not in a good way.
  • They favour tiny miniskirts and opaquely opalescent tights, and have the ice-eyed look of Natashas and Laras who might at the drop of a dollar give a man more trouble than he could conceivably imagine.
  • This process helps combat the natural bitter flavour of the drink and releases its brilliant opalescent green colour.
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