Wispy

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  wispy
       adj 1: thin and weak; "a wispy little fellow with small hands and
              feet"- Edmund Wilson [syn: {wisplike}]
       2: lacking clarity or distinctness; "a dim figure in the
          distance"; "only a faint recollection"; "shadowy figures
          in the gloom"; "saw a vague outline of a building through


          the fog"; "a few wispy memories of childhood" [syn: {dim},
           {faint}, {shadowy}, {vague}]
       [also: {wispiest}, {wispier}]

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

  75 Moby Thesaurus words for "wispy":
     airy, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, breakable, brittle,
     cheap-jack, cobwebby, crumbly, dainty, delicate, delicately weak,
     diaphanous, diluted, effeminate, 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,
     papery, pasteboardy, puny, rare, rarefied, shattery, 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, watered, watered-down, watery,
     weak, willowy, wiredrawn, womanish