Meaning of FILMY
| Pronunciation: | | 'filmee
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| | Definition: | | [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" |
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| | Synonyms: | | cobwebby, diaphanous, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, thin, transparent, vaporous |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Film"y\, a.
Composed of film or films.
Whose filmy cord should bind the struggling fly.
--Dryden.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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