wispy

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
wispy
    adj 1: thin and weak; "a wispy little fellow with small hands
           and feet"- Edmund Wilson [syn: {wisplike}, {wispy}]
    2: lacking clarity or distinctness; "a dim figure in the
       distance"; "only a faint recollection"; "shadowy figures in
       the gloom"; "saw a vague outline of a building through the
       fog"; "a few wispy memories of childhood" [syn: {dim},
       {faint}, {shadowy}, {vague}, {wispy}]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
75 Moby Thesaurus words for "wispy":
      airy, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, breakable, brittle,
      cheap-jack, cobwebby, crumbly, dainty, delicate, delicately weak,
      diaphanous, diluted, effeminate, 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,
      papery, pasteboardy, puny, rare, rarefied, shattery, 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, watered, watered-down, watery,
      weak, willowy, wiredrawn, womanish

    

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