Gossamery

2 definitions found

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

  Gossamery \Gos"sa*mer*y\, a.
     Like gossamer; flimsy.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The greatest master of gossamery affectation. --De
                                                    Quincey.


     [1913 Webster]

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

  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