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# filmy

«filmy» in Mova's school dictionary: **thin, light and see-through, like a very fine cloth or film** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (filmier, filmiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Filmy means thin, light and see-through, like a very fine cloth or film. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filmy/#m1)

2) Filmy eyes are dim or clouded over with a thin skin, as in old age. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filmy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a thin veil or dim, misted eyes of an old dog or person

### examples

- The curtain was filmy and let the sun through. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filmy/#x1)
- A filmy veil covered her face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filmy/#x2)
- The old dog's eyes had gone filmy with age. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filmy/#x3)
- She wiped the filmy mist from the window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filmy/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «filmy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filmy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.