THESAURUS
silky
attenuate, attenuated, buffed, burnished, capillary, cirrose, cirrous, cottony, dainty, deferential, delicate, disarming, downy, fibered, fibroid, fibrous, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained, finespun, finished, flagelliform, flossy, fluffy, funicular, furbished, fuzzy, gauzy, glace, glassy, glazed, gleaming, glossy, gossamer, gossamery, hairlike, hairy, insinuating, insinuative, lacquered, ligamental, lustrous, plush, plushy, polished, pubescent, refined, ropy, rubbed, saccharine, satin, satinlike, satiny, sericeous, shellacked, shiny, silken, silklike, sleek, slick, smooth, soft, soft as silk, stringy, taeniate, taeniform, thin-spun, threadlike, thready, varnished, velutinous, velvetlike, velvety, wiredrawn, wiry
ROGET THESAURUS
silky
Smoothness
N
smoothness, polish, gloss, lubricity, lubrication, down, velvet, velure, silk, satin, velveteen, velour, velours, velumen, glass, ice, slide, bowling green, asphalt, wood pavement, flagstone, flags, roller, steam roller, lawn roller, rolling pin, rolling mill, sand paper, emery paper, emery cloth, sander, flat iron, sad iron, burnisher, turpentine and beeswax, polish, shoe polish, lapidary, lapidary, lapidarian, smooth, polished, leiodermatous, slick, velutinous, even, level, plane, sleek, glossy, silken,
silky, lanate, downy, velvety, glabrous, slippery, glassy, lubricous, oily, soft, unwrinkled, smooth as glass, smooth as ice, smooth as monumental alabaster, smooth as velvet, smooth as oil, slippery as an eel, woolly, smooth as silk, slippery as coonshit on a pump handle, slippery as a greased pig.
Texture
N
texture, structure (form), organization, anatomy, frame, mold, fabric, construction, framework, carcass, architecture, stratification, cleavage, substance, stuff, compages, parenchyma, constitution, staple, organism, organography, osteology, myology, splanchnology, neurology, angiography, adeology, angiography, adenography, texture, surface texture, intertexture, contexture, tissue, grain, web, surface, warp and woof, warp and weft, tooth, nap, flatness (smoothness), fineness of grain, coarseness of grain, dry goods, silk, satin, muslin, burlap, histology, structural, organic, anatomic, anatomical, textural, textile, fine grained, coarse grained, fine, delicate, subtile, gossamery, filmy,
silky, satiny, coarse, homespun, rough, gritty, smooth, smooth as silk, smooth as satin.