| Silken 1. (a.) Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; as, silken cloth; a silken veil. 2. (a.) Fig.: Soft; delicate; tender; smooth; as, silken language. 3. (a.) Dressed in silk. 4. (v. t.) To render silken or silk like. Thesaurus Entries buffed, burnished, cottony, deferential, disarming, finished, furbished, glace, glassy, glazed, gleaming, glossy, insinuating, insinuative, lacquered, plush, plushy, polished, rubbed, saccharine, satinlike, satiny, sericeous, shellacked, shiny, silklike, silky, sleek, slick, soft as silk, varnished, velutinous, velvetlike, velvety |