Definition of "velvety" in English

adjective

1. (also figuratively) Like velvet; soft, smooth, soothing.

   • The mouse was a warm, velvety weight in my hand.
   • The crooner had a velvety voice that made the ladies swoon.
   • 1964, Elie Wiesel, The Town Beyond the Wall (1962), translated by Stephen Becker, New York: Atheneum, 1964, p. 104, Tangier was washed in a velvety bluish twilight.