Filmy \Film"y\, a.
Composed of film or films.
[1913 Webster]
Whose filmy cord should bind the struggling fly.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
filmy
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: diaphanous, gauzy, gossamer, see-through,
sheer, transparent, vaporous, cobwebby]
[also: filmiest, filmier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
110 Moby Thesaurus words for "filmy":
attenuate, attenuated, beclouded, blear, bleared, bleary, blurred,
blurry, clear, clear as crystal, clouded, cloudy, cobwebby,
confused, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, dainty, dark,
delicate, diaphane, diaphanous, dim, downy, faint, feeble, fine,
fine-drawn, fine-grained, finespun, flimsy, fluffy, foggy,
foliaceous, foliated, fuzzy, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, half-seen,
half-visible, hazy, ill-defined, in layers, inconspicuous,
indefinite, indistinct, indistinguishable, insubstantial, lamellar,
lamellate, lamellated, lamelliform, laminate, laminated, laminous,
leaflike, leafy, light, light-pervious, limpid, low-profile, lucid,
membranous, merely glimpsed, milky, misty, murky, nonopaque,
obscure, opalescent, out of focus, pale, pearly, peekaboo,
pellucid, pubescent, refined, revealing, satin, satiny, scummy,
see-through, semivisible, shadowy, sheer, silky, smooth, spathic,
spathose, stratified, stratiform, thin, thin-spun, three-ply,
translucent, transparent, transpicuous, two-ply, uncertain,
unclear, unclouded, undefined, unplain, unrecognizable, vague,
velutinous, velvety, weak, wiredrawn
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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