Word Meanings - METALLICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

METALLIC
Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive. Metallic iron, iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic
METALLICLY
In a metallic manner; by metallic means.
METALLICAL
See METALLIC
MONOMETALLIC
Consisting of one metal; of or pertaining to monometallism.
BIMETALLIC
Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency.
PSEUDO-METALLIC
Falsely or imperfectly metallic; -- said of a kind of luster, as in minerals.
SUBMETALLIC
Imperfectly metallic; as, a submetallic luster.
NONMETALLIC
Resembling, or possessing the properties of, a nonmetal or metalloid; as, sulphur is a nonmetallic element. (more info) 1. Not metallic.
ORGANOMETALLIC
Metalorganic.
SEMIMETALLIC
Of or pertaining to a semimetal; possessing metallic properties in an inferior degree; resembling metal.