metallic.

1. Resembling metal in appearance, sound, taste, or another specified sensory quality.

2. Consisting of metal or relating to metal as a material.

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Words that belong together

• a metallic taste
• a metallic clang
• metallic sheen

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A metallic clang carried through the stairwell after the door closed.

The water left a metallic taste she could not identify.

Usage notes

Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Relational or color adjective; more and most only in a natural qualitative comparison. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.