papery

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
papery
    adj 1: thin and paperlike; "papery leaves"; "wasps that make
           nests of papery material"
    2: of or like paper [syn: {chartaceous}, {papery}, {paperlike}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
papery \pa"per*y\ (p[=a]"p[~e]r*[y^]), a.
   Like paper; having the thinness or consistency of paper.
   --Gray.
   [1913 Webster]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
90 Moby Thesaurus words for "papery":
      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, thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike,
      unsubstantial, vague, wasp-waisted, wasted, watered, watered-down,
      watery, weak, willowy, wilted, wiredrawn, wispy, withered, wizened,
      womanish, wrinkled, , 

    

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