gossamery
111womanish — Synonyms and related words: breakable, brittle, cheap jack, chicken, cobwebby, crumbly, dainty, delicate, delicately weak, distaff, effeminate, female, feminine, flimsy, fragile, frail, frangible, gentlewomanlike, gimcrack, gimcracky, girlish,… …
112yeasty — Synonyms and related words: agog, airy, aquiver, aroused, atingle, atwitter, barmy, bubbly, bursting, carried away, diastatic, dizzy, downy, ebullient, effervescent, enzymic, ethereal, excited, exhilarated, featherbrained, feathery, fermenting,… …
113aerial — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. airy, atmospheric; lofty, soaring; graceful, ethereal; visionary. See air, height, insubstantiality, imagination. n. rabbit ears (See communication). II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. in the air, flying,… …
114airy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unsubstantial, immaterial; well ventilated, breezy; flimsy, unreal, visionary; sprightly, light, volatile; pretentious. See insubstantiality, air, affectation. Ant., close, heavy. II (Roget s IV)… …
115ethereal — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. airy, delicate, light, tenuous, fragile, fairy; heavenly, celestial, empyreal. See insubstantiality, heaven.Ant., earthly, mortal. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Delicate] Syn. airy, fragile,… …
116gossamer — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. cobweb; gauze, veil. See transparency. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Cobweb] Syn. spiderweb, filament, tendril; see fiber 1 , thread . 2. [Thin cloth] Syn. gauze, tissue, chiffon, sheer silk, sheer nylon.… …
117light — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I adj. airy (see levity); frivolous, jesting, jocular, lightsome; giddy, dizzy, flighty; wanton; nimble, agile; flippant, pert, insouciant; humorous; trivial. See cheerfulness, unimportance, impurity,… …
118sheer — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. utter, absolute; mere, simple; thin, diaphanous; perpendicular, precipitous, vertical, steep. See transparency, simpleness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Abrupt] Syn. steep, very steep, precipitous;… …
119texture — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Surface characteristics Nouns 1. texture, quality, fabric, surface, fiber, nap, tooth, tissue, weave, warp and woof, weft, grain, fineness or coarseness of grain; smoothness, roughness. See ornament. 2.… …
120transparent — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. translucent (see transparency); manifest, candid, obvious. See evidence, visibility, coherence, simpleness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Allowing light to pass through] Syn. clear, translucent, lucid …
