What is "gossamer" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does gossamer mean in English? Meaning of gossamer definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "gossamer" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "gossamer": a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture

Noun

  • Meaning: a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture
  • Synonyms: gossamer
  • Hypernyms: gauze netting veiling
  • Meaning of "gossamer": characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy

    Adjective

  • Meaning: characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy
  • Example: this smallest and most ethereal of birds gossamer shading through his playing
  • Synonyms: ethereal gossamer
  • Similar: delicate
  • Meaning of "gossamer": filaments from a web that was spun by a spider

    Noun

  • Meaning: filaments from a web that was spun by a spider
  • Synonyms: cobweb gossamer
  • Hypernyms: fibril filament strand
  • Meaning of "gossamer": so thin as to transmit light

    Adjective

  • Meaning: so thin as to transmit light
  • Example: 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
  • Synonyms: cobwebby diaphanous filmy gauze-like gauzy gossamer see-through sheer transparent vaporous vapourous
  • Similar: thin
  • Adjective: A fine film or strand as of cobwebs, floating in the air or caught on bushes etc.A soft, sheer fabric.Anything delicate, light and flimsy.
  • Synonyms:

    silky, translucent, fibrous, fine, flimsy, cobweb, light, airy, delicate, diaphanous, sheer, transparent, tiffany,

    Antonyms:

    dark, thick, heavy, serious, coarse,

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