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Filmy synonyms
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gauzy
Resembling gauze, as in thinness or translucency:
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  1. Resembling gauze, as in thinness or translucency:
  2. Thin, light, and transparent, like gauze; diaphanous
  3. Having the qualities of gauze; light, thin, transparent, hazy
flimsy
Likely to bend or break under pressure; weak, shaky, flexible, or fragile.
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  1. Likely to bend or break under pressure; weak, shaky, flexible, or fragile.
  2. Light, thin, and insubstantial:
  3. Lacking plausibility; unconvincing:
diaphanous
So fine or gauzy in texture as to be transparent or translucent
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  1. So fine or gauzy in texture as to be transparent or translucent
  2. Of such fine composition as to be easily damaged or broken; delicate:
  3. Sufficiently thin or airy as to be translucent:
gossamer
Sheer, light, or delicate:
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  1. Sheer, light, or delicate:
misty
Characterized by or covered with mist
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  1. Characterized by or covered with mist
  2. Consisting of or marked by mist:
  3. Blurred or dimmed, as by mist; indistinct
cloudy
Marked with indistinct masses or streaks:
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  1. Marked with indistinct masses or streaks:
  2. Covered with or characterised by clouds; overcast.
  3. Not transparent or clear.
dim
Weak or diminished; feeble:
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  1. Weak or diminished; feeble:
  2. Not bright; somewhat dark
  3. Emitting only a small amount of light; faint:
aerial
(Bot.) Growing in the air instead of in soil or water
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  1. (Bot.) Growing in the air instead of in soil or water
  2. Of, for, or by means of aircraft:
  3. Like air; light as air
aery
Ethereal.
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  1. Ethereal.
  2. (Poetic) aerial; ethereal; incorporeal; visionary.
  3. (Old Poet.) Airy; unsubstantial; visionary
airy
Light as air; delicate; graceful
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  1. Light as air; delicate; graceful
  2. (Painting) Having the light and aerial tints true to nature.
  3. Light or delicate:
diaphanous
Vague or indistinct; airy
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  1. Vague or indistinct; airy
  2. Of such fine composition as to be easily damaged or broken; delicate:
  3. Sufficiently thin or airy as to be translucent:
ethereal
Very light; airy; delicate
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  1. Very light; airy; delicate
  2. (Chem.) Of, like, or containing ether, esp. if mixed with an essential oil
  3. Extremely light or delicate:
gauzy
Resembling gauze, as in thinness or translucency:
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  1. Resembling gauze, as in thinness or translucency:
  2. Thin, light, and transparent, like gauze; diaphanous
  3. Having the qualities of gauze; light, thin, transparent, hazy
gossamer
Sheer, light, or delicate:
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  1. Sheer, light, or delicate:
gossamery
Like gossamer; flimsy.
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  1. Like gossamer; flimsy.
  2. Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
sheer
Very thin; transparent; diaphanous
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  1. Very thin; transparent; diaphanous
  2. Completely such, without qualification or exception:
  3. Thin, fine, and translucent:
transparent
So fine in texture or open in mesh that objects on the other side may be seen relatively clearly; sheer; gauzy; diaphanous
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  1. So fine in texture or open in mesh that objects on the other side may be seen relatively clearly; sheer; gauzy; diaphanous
  2. So fine in texture that it can be seen through; sheer.
  3. Capable of transmitting light so that objects or images can be seen as if there were no intervening material.
vaporous
Full of vapor; foggy; misty
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  1. Full of vapor; foggy; misty
  2. Like, having the nature of, or characteristic of vapor
  3. Fleeting, unsubstantial, fanciful, etc.
vapory
Vaporous.
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  1. Vaporous.
  2. Resembling vapor; vaporous
cloudy
Full of or covered with clouds; overcast.
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  1. Full of or covered with clouds; overcast.
  2. Obscure; vague; not clear
  3. Not transparent or clear.
dim
Not bright; somewhat dark
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  1. Not bright; somewhat dark
  2. Emitting only a small amount of light; faint:
  3. Weak or diminished; feeble:
hazy
Somewhat vague, obscure, confused, or indefinite
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  1. Somewhat vague, obscure, confused, or indefinite
  2. Filled with haze; somewhat foggy, misty, or smoky
  3. Marked by the presence of haze; misty:
misty
Vague; hazy:
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  1. Vague; hazy:
  2. Consisting of or marked by mist:
  3. Blurred or dimmed, as by mist; indistinct
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  • It generally makes its nest in a hollow branch, plastering up the opening with clay, leaving only a circular hole just large enough to afford entrance and exit; and the interior contains a bed of dry leaves or the filmy flakes of the inner bark of a fir or cedar, on which the eggs are laid.

  • Young resembling parents, but penultimate instar passive and enclosed in a filmy pellicle.

  • The leaves are large and pinnate; their lamina is usually thick, though filmy species of Todea occur.

  • filmy fern grows along the banks of the Sillees River as it runs through Correl Glen.

  • Whether she is comfortable in a rich yet modest fabric or the sheerest and shortest of filmy threads, her lingerie is as intimate as every curve it is designed to hug.

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