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gossamer
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As a noun, gossamer means a fine film or strand as of cobwebs, floating in the air or caught on bushes, etc. As an adjective, it means tenuous, light, filmy or delicate.
Meanings of gossamer
8 meaningsnoun
A fine film or strand as of cobwebs, floating in the air or caught on bushes, etc.
A soft, sheer fabric.
Anything delicate, light and flimsy.
A gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture
Filaments from a web that was spun by a spider
Similar: cobweb
adjective
Tenuous, light, filmy or delicate.
Characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy
“this smallest and most ethereal of birds”
“gossamer shading through his playing”
Similar: etherealSo thin as to transmit light
“a hat with a diaphanous veil”
“filmy wings of a moth”
“gauzy clouds of dandelion down”
Similar: diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, see-through, sheer
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).