filmy

filmy
    adj 1: 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" [syn:
           {diaphanous}, {filmy}, {gauzy}, {gauze-like}, {gossamer},
           {see-through}, {sheer}, {transparent}, {vaporous},
           {vapourous}, {cobwebby}]
    

Filmy \Film"y\, a.
   Composed of film or films.
   [1913 Webster]

         Whose filmy cord should bind the struggling fly.
                                                  --Dryden.
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110 Moby Thesaurus words for "filmy":
      attenuate, attenuated, beclouded, blear, bleared, bleary, blurred,
      blurry, clear, clear as crystal, clouded, cloudy, cobwebby,
      confused, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, dainty, dark,
      delicate, diaphane, diaphanous, dim, downy, faint, feeble, fine,
      fine-drawn, fine-grained, finespun, flimsy, fluffy, foggy,
      foliaceous, foliated, fuzzy, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, half-seen,
      half-visible, hazy, ill-defined, in layers, inconspicuous,
      indefinite, indistinct, indistinguishable, insubstantial, lamellar,
      lamellate, lamellated, lamelliform, laminate, laminated, laminous,
      leaflike, leafy, light, light-pervious, limpid, low-profile, lucid,
      membranous, merely glimpsed, milky, misty, murky, nonopaque,
      obscure, opalescent, out of focus, pale, pearly, peekaboo,
      pellucid, pubescent, refined, revealing, satin, satiny, scummy,
      see-through, semivisible, shadowy, sheer, silky, smooth, spathic,
      spathose, stratified, stratiform, thin, thin-spun, three-ply,
      translucent, transparent, transpicuous, two-ply, uncertain,
      unclear, unclouded, undefined, unplain, unrecognizable, vague,
      velutinous, velvety, weak, wiredrawn