gossamery

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Gossamery \Gos"sa*mer*y\, a.
   Like gossamer; flimsy.
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         The greatest master of gossamery affectation. --De
                                                  Quincey.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
128 Moby Thesaurus words for "gossamery":
      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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