Gossamer synonyms

gŏs'ə-mər

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spiderweb
A web made by a spider
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sheer nylon
Thin cloth
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aerial
(Botany) Growing or borne above the ground or water:
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filmy
The definition of filmy is something airy, sheer or hazy.
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chiffon
A sheer, lightweight fabric of silk, nylon, etc.
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sheer silk
Thin cloth
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fiber (related)
The definition of a fiber is a thin, threadlike structure that combines to form animal or plant tissue, or a thin, threadlike structure made synthetically or from minerals.
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thread (related)
The definition of thread is a fine line, streak or string.
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opaque (antonym)
Impenetrable by light; neither transparent nor translucent.
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thick (antonym)
(Informal) Very friendly; intimate:
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coarse (antonym)
Consisting of large particles; not fine in texture:
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aery
Ethereal.
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airy
Having little or no substance; thin or immaterial:
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diaphanous
Transparent or translucent; allowing light to pass through; capable of being seen through.
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ethereal
Very light; airy; delicate
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gauzy
Resembling gauze, as in thinness or translucency:
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sheer
(Textiles) Very thin or transparent.
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transparent
Easily seen through or detected; obvious:
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vaporous
Insubstantial, vague, or ethereal:
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vapory
Resembling vapor; vaporous
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gauze-like
so thin as to transmit light
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see-through
That can be seen through; more or less transparent or translucent
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vapourous
Alternative form of vaporous.
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cobwebby
Resembling a cobweb.
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cobweb
(Internet) A web page that either has not been updated for a long time, or that is rarely visited
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silken (related)
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wispy (related)
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filament
(Physics, astronomy) A massive, thread-like structure, such as those gaseous ones which extend outward from the surface of the sun, or such as those (much larger) ones which form the boundaries between large voids in the universe.
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tendril
A slender, coiling plant part, often a modified leaf or leaf part, that helps support the stem of some climbing angiosperms by clinging to or winding around an object. Peas, squash, and grapes produce tendrils.
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gauze
Any very thin, light, transparent, loosely woven material, as of cotton or silk
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tissue
Any of the distinct structural materials of an organism, having a particular function
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Gossamer Sentence Examples

  • The shape of fairy wings vary from a moth's wings to a butterfly to gossamer bird -like wings that flare upwards.

  • Your little girl will likely have a say in what her holiday dress should look like, and chances are she will choose something spectacularly gossamer.

  • The construction of Hampton Bay fans includes the addition of Gossamer Wind blades as the brand name for every fan.

  • It soon became the norm for fairies to be pictured as the size of buttercups and daisies, flitting about on gossamer wings and hidding under toadstools.

  • It was formerly supposed that this custom was peculiar to a single species, which was called the "gossamer" spider from the fact that the floating webs, when brought to the earth by rain or intercepted by bushes and trees, coat the foliage or grass with a sheeting of gossamer-like silk; but the habit is now known to be practised by the newly-hatched young of a great variety of species belonging to several distinct families.

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