Gossamery

a.

1.

Like gossamer; flimsy. The greatest master of gossamery affectation. - De Quincey.

air-built, airy, attenuate, attenuated, breakable, brittle, bubbly, capillary, cheap-jack, chimerical, cirrose, cirrous, clear, clear as crystal, cloud-built, cobwebby, crumbly, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, dainty, delicate, delicately weak, diaphane, diaphanous, downy, dreamlike, effeminate, ethereal, fanciful, fatuitous, fatuous, feathery, fibered, fibroid, fibrous, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained, finespun, flagelliform, flimsy, flossy, fluffy, foamy, fragile, frail, frangible, frothy, funicular, fuzzy, gaseous, gauzy, gimcrack, gimcracky, gossamer, hairlike, hairy, illusory, imaginary, imponderous, jerry, jerry-built, leger, ligamental, light, light as air, light-pervious, lighter than vanity, lightweight, limpid, lucid, mousse, namby-pamby, nonopaque, papery, pasteboardy, peekaboo, pellucid, phantomlike, pubescent, puny, rarefied, refined, revealing, ropy, satin, satiny, see-through, shadowy, shattery, sheer, silky, sissified, sleazy, slight, smooth, souffle, spirituous, stringy, subtile, subtle, tacky, taeniate, taeniform, tenuous, thin, thin-spun, threadlike, thready, transparent, transpicuous, unclouded, unheavy, unreal, unsubstantial, vaporous, velutinous, velvety, volatile, weightless, windy, wiredrawn, wiry, wispy, womanish, yeasty

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