Diaphanous \Di*aph"a*nous\, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to show or shine
through; dia` through + ? to show, and in the passive, to
shine: cf. F. diaphane. See Phantom, and cf. Diaphane,
Diaphanic.]
Allowing light to pass through, as porcelain; translucent or
transparent; pellucid; clear.
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Another cloud in the region of them, light enough to be
fantastic and diaphanous. --Landor.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
diaphanous
adj : 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"
[syn: filmy, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer,
transparent, vaporous, cobwebby]
WordNet (r) 2.0
80 Moby Thesaurus words for "diaphanous":
airy, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, clear, clear as crystal,
cloudless, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, delicate, diaphane,
diluted, ethereal, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy,
frail, gauzy, girlish, gossamer, gossamery, gracile, insubstantial,
lacy, light, light-pervious, lightish, lightsome, limpid, lucent,
lucid, luculent, misty, nonopaque, papery, peekaboo, pellucid,
rare, rarefied, relucent, revealing, see-through, serene, sheer,
slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky,
small, subtle, svelte, sylphlike, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied,
thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, translucent, translucid,
transparent, transpicuous, unclouded, unobscured, vague,
wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, willowy,
wiredrawn, wispy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
cobwebby, filmy, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous
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