gossamer

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

1. a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture
• Hypernyms:
gauze, netting, veiling
2. filaments from a web that was spun by a spider
• Syn:
cobweb
• Hypernyms:
fibril, filament, strand

II - adjective

1. characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy (Freq. 1)
- this smallest and most ethereal of birds
- gossamer shading through his playing
• Syn:
ethereal
• Similar to:
delicate
2. 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, see-through,
sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous, cobwebby
• Similar to:
thin
• Derivationally related forms:
cobweb (for: cobwebby), transparency (for: transparent), transparentness (for: transparent), gauze (for: gauzy), film (for: filmy)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  ethereal, cobweb