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n. a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture

n. filaments from a web that was spun by a spider

adj. characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy; "this smallest and most ethereal of birds"; "gossamer shading through his playing"

light, sheer, transparent, vaporous, airy, diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, see-through

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"

chiffon

n. a sheer fabric of silk or rayon

feather, plume, plumage

n. the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds

thistledown

n. pappus of a thistle consisting of silky featherlike hairs attached to the seedlike fruit of a thistle

rare, rarefied

adj. having low density; "rare gasses"; "lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air"

dilute, tenuous

adj. having thin consistency; "a tenuous fluid"

light

adj. of comparatively little physical weight or density; "a light load"; "magnesium is a light metal--having a specific gravity of 1.74 at 20 degrees C"

weightless

adj. having little or no weight or apparent gravitational pull; light; "floating freely in a weightless condition"; "a baby bat...fluffy and weightless as a moth"; "jackets made of a weightless polyester fabric"

translucent, semitransparent

adj. almost transparent; allowing light to pass through diffusely; "translucent amber"; "semitransparent curtains at the windows"

slight, slim, delicate, slender

adj. being of delicate or slender build; "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street"

foamy, frothy, spumy, sudsy

adj. relating to or containing gas bubbles

floating, buoyant, floaty

adj. tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas; "buoyant balloons"; "buoyant balsawood boats"; "a floaty scarf"

fine, dainty, exquisite

adj. delicately beautiful; "a dainty teacup"; "an exquisite cameo"

faint, subtle

adj. faint and difficult to analyze; "subtle aromas"

frail, fragile

adj. vulnerably delicate; "she has the fragile beauty of youth"

light, gentle, soft

adj. exerting little force or pressure: "the light touch of her fingers"; "a soft rain"; "a gentle breeze"

half-hardy

adj. (of plants) requiring protection from frost; "half-hardy annuals"

light-handed

adj. having a metaphorically delicate touch; "the translation is...light-handed...and generally unobtrusive"- New Yorker

overdelicate

adj. extremely delicate; "an overdelicate digestive system"

pastel

adj. lacking in body or vigor; "faded pastel charms of the naive music"

tender, unresistant

adj. (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition; "tender green shoots"

capillary, hairlike

adj. long and slender with a very small internal diameter; "a capillary tube"

filamentous, threadlike, thready

adj. thin in diameter; resembling a thread

fine, slim, slender, tenuous

adj. very thin in gauge or diameter; "a tenuous thread"

flimsy

adj. very thin and insubstantial; "thin paper"; "flimsy voile"; "light summer dresses"

split, hyperfine

adj. extremely fine or thin, as in a spectral line split into two or more components; "hyperfine structure"

papery

adj. thin and paperlike; "papery leaves"; "wasps that make nests of papery material"

sleazy

adj. of cloth; thin and loosely woven; "the coat has a sleazy lining"

overweight, heavy, fleshy

adj. usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it

thick, heavy

adj. abounding; having a lot of; "the top was thick with dust"

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