| Meaning | Containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal. |
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| Examples | - "a metallic compound"
- "metallic luster"
- "the strange metallic note of the meadow lark, suggesting the clash of vibrant blades"- Ambrose Bierce
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| Synonym | metal |
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| Narrower | all-metal | Consisting completely of metal |
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| aluminiferous | Containing alum or aluminum |
| antimonial | Containing antimony |
| argentiferous | Containing or yielding silver |
| auriferous, gold-bearing | Containing gold |
| bimetal, bimetallic | formed of two different metals or alloys |
| bronze | made from or consisting of bronze |
| gold, golden, gilded | made from or covered with gold |
| metallike, metal-looking, metallic-looking | resembling metal |
| silver | made from or largely consisting of silver |
| tinny | Thin and metallic in sound |
| Opposite | nonmetallic, nonmetal | not containing or resembling or characteristic of a metal |
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| Spanish | metálico |
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| Catalan | metàl·lic |
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| Nouns | metal | any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc. |
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| metal | a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten |
