GAUZY: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
Pronunciation: | | 'gozee
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Matching Terms: | | gauze, gauze bandage, Gauziness
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WordNet Dictionary |
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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, filmy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, thin, transparent, vaporous |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \Gauz"y\, a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, gauze; thin and slight as
gauze.
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| Related Terms: | | 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, thinnish, thin-set, thin-spun, threadlike, transparent, transpicuous, unclouded, vague, velutinous, velvety, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, willowy, wiredrawn, wispy |
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