Meaning of PAPERY
| Pronunciation: | | 'peypuree
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- [adj] thin and paperlike; "papery leaves"; "wasps that make nests of papery material"
- [adj] of or like paper
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| | Synonyms: | | chartaceous, paperlike, thin |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pa"per*y\, a.
Like paper; having the thinness or consistence of paper.
--Gray.
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| | Related Terms: | | airy, atrophied, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, breakable, brittle, cheap-jack, cobwebby, crumbly, dainty, delicate, delicately weak, desiccated, diaphanous, diluted, dried-up, effeminate, emaciated, ethereal, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy, fragile, frail, frangible, gauzy, gimcrack, gimcracky, girlish, gossamer, gossamery, gracile, insubstantial, jerry, jerry-built, lacy, light, lightweight, misty, namby-pamby, parchmenty, pasteboardy, puny, rare, rarefied, sere, shattery, shriveled, shrunken, sissified, sleazy, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, subtle, svelte, sylphlike, tacky, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thinnish, thin-set, thin-spun, threadlike, unsubstantial, vague, wasp-waisted, wasted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, willowy, wilted, wiredrawn, wispy, withered, wizened, womanish, wrinkled |
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