/ˈfɪlmi/
OriginFrom film + -y. Cognate with Middle Dutch velmich, vilmich (“filmy, membranous”). Doublet of filmic.
- Resembling or made of a thin film; gauzy.
- 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.”
“1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XVI, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks”
- Filmlike; resembling a motion picture.
Formsfilmier(comparative) · filmiest(superlative)