Gauzy \Gauz"y\, a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, gauze; thin and slight as
gauze.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
gauzy
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, filmy, gossamer, see-through,
sheer, transparent, vaporous, cobwebby]
[also: gauziest, gauzier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
83 Moby Thesaurus words for "gauzy":
airy, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, clear, clear as crystal,
crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, dainty, delicate, diaphane,
diaphanous, diluted, downy, ethereal, filmy, fine, fine-drawn,
fine-grained, finespun, flimsy, fluffy, frail, fuzzy, girlish,
gossamer, gossamery, gracile, insubstantial, lacy, light,
light-pervious, limpid, lucid, misty, nonopaque, papery, peekaboo,
pellucid, pubescent, rare, rarefied, refined, revealing, satin,
satiny, see-through, sheer, silky, slender, slenderish, slight,
slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, smooth, subtle, svelte,
sylphlike, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun,
thinnish, threadlike, transparent, transpicuous, unclouded, vague,
velutinous, velvety, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery,
weak, willowy, wiredrawn, wispy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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