gossamer
Noun
- a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture
- Less specific
- gauze
- netting
- veiling
- Related
- ethereal
- gossamer
- Less specific
- filaments from a web that was spun by a spider
- Synonyms
- cobweb
- Less specific
- fibril
- filament
- strand
- Related
- ethereal
- gossamer
- Synonyms
Adjective
- characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy; “this smallest and most ethereal of birds”; “gossamer shading through his playing”
- Synonyms
- ethereal
- Similar to
- delicate
- Related
- cobweb
- gossamer
- gossamer
- Synonyms
- so thin as to transmit light; “a hat with a diaphanous veil”; “filmy wings of a moth”; “gauzy clouds of dandelion down”; “gossamer cobwebs”; “sheer silk stockings”; “transparent chiffon”; “vaporous silks”
- Synonyms
- diaphanous
- filmy
- gauzy
- gauze-like
- see-through
- sheer
- transparent
- vaporous
- vapourous
- cobwebby
- Similar to
- thin
- Related
- cobweb
- transparency
- transparence
- transparency
- transparence
- transparentness
- gauze
- netting
- veiling
- film
- plastic film
- Synonyms
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