Papery

3 definitions found

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

  papery \pa"per*y\ (p[=a]"p[~e]r*[y^]), a.
     Like paper; having the thinness or consistency of paper.
     --Gray.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  papery
       adj 1: thin and paperlike; "papery leaves"; "wasps that make nests
              of papery material"
       2: of or like paper [syn: {chartaceous}, {paperlike}]

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

  90 Moby Thesaurus words for "papery":
     airy, atrophied, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, breakable, brittle,
     cheap-jack, cobwebby, crumbly, dainty, delicate, delicately weak,
     desiccated, diaphanous, diluted, dried-up, effeminate, emaciated,
     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, parchmenty, pasteboardy, puny,
     rare, rarefied, sere, shattery, shriveled, shrunken, 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, wasted, watered, watered-down,
     watery, weak, willowy, wilted, wiredrawn, wispy, withered, wizened,
     womanish, wrinkled, ,