Diaphanous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Diaphanous \Di*aph"a*nous\, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to show or shine
     through; dia` through + ? to show, and in the passive, to
     shine: cf. F. diaphane. See {Phantom}, and cf. {Diaphane},
     {Diaphanic}.]
     Allowing light to pass through, as porcelain; translucent or
     transparent; pellucid; clear.


     [1913 Webster]
  
           Another cloud in the region of them, light enough to be
           fantastic and diaphanous.                --Landor.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  diaphanous
       adj : 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: {filmy}, {gauzy}, {gossamer}, {see-through}, {sheer},
              {transparent}, {vaporous}, {cobwebby}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  80 Moby Thesaurus words for "diaphanous":
     airy, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, clear, clear as crystal,
     cloudless, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, delicate, diaphane,
     diluted, ethereal, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy,
     frail, gauzy, girlish, gossamer, gossamery, gracile, insubstantial,
     lacy, light, light-pervious, lightish, lightsome, limpid, lucent,
     lucid, luculent, misty, nonopaque, papery, peekaboo, pellucid,
     rare, rarefied, relucent, revealing, see-through, serene, sheer,
     slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky,
     small, subtle, svelte, sylphlike, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied,
     thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, translucent, translucid,
     transparent, transpicuous, unclouded, unobscured, vague,
     wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, willowy,
     wiredrawn, wispy