silken.

1. Made from silk, or consisting of silk fibers.

2. Resembling silk in smoothness, softness, luster, or graceful flow.

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Words that belong together

• a silken robe
• a silken thread
• a silken lining

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The silken lining survived where the heavier outer cloth had split.

A silken thread caught on the broken hinge.

Usage notes

Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Comparative more silken; superlative most silken for the figurative or silk-like sense; non-gradable for actual material. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.