Synonyms of the word

gossamer

• n. A fine film or strand as of cobwebs, floating in the air or caught on bushes, etc.
• n. A soft, sheer fabric.
• n. Anything delicate, light and flimsy.
• adj. Tenuous, light, filmy or delicate.

cobweb

• n. A spiderweb, or the remains of one, especially an asymmetrical one that is woven with an irregular pattern…
• n. One of its filaments; gossamer.
• n. (figuratively) Something thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; rubbish.
• n. An intricate plot to catch the unwary.
• n. (Internet, rare, slang) A web page that either has not been updated for a long time, or that is rarely…
• n. The European spotted flycatcher, Muscicapa striata.

cobwebby

• adj. Having many cobwebs.
• adj. Resembling a cobweb or cobwebs.
• adj. (figuratively) Old or dated.

delicate

• adj. Easily damaged or requiring careful handling.
• adj. Characterized by a fine structure or thin lines.
• adj. Intended for use with fragile items.
• adj. Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; said of manners, conduct, or feelings.
• adj. Of weak health; easily sick; unable to endure hardship.
• adj. (informal) Unwell, especially because of having drunk too much alcohol.
• adj. (obsolete) Addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring.
• adj. Pleasing to the senses; refined; adapted to please an elegant or cultivated taste.
• adj. Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful.
• adj. Light, or softly tinted; said of a colour.
• adj. Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious.
• adj. Highly discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite.
• adj. Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes.
• n. A delicate item of clothing, especially underwear or lingerie.
• n. (obsolete) A choice dainty; a delicacy.
• n. (obsolete) A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person.

diaphanous

• adj. Transparent or translucent; allowing light to pass through; capable of being seen through.
• adj. Of a fine, almost transparent, texture; gossamer; light and insubstantial.

ethereal

• adj. Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the…
• adj. Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy,…
• adj. Delicate, light and airy.
• adj. (chemistry) To do with ether.

fibril

• n. A fine fibre or filament.
• n. (biology) Any fine, filamentous structure in animals or plants.

filament

• n. A fine thread or wire.
• n. Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve.
• n. (physics, astronomy) A massive, thread-like structure, such as those gaseous ones which extend outward…
• n. (botany) The stalk of a stamen in a flower, supporting the anther.
• n. (textiles) A continuous object, limited in length only by its spool, and not cut to length.

filmy

• adj. Resembling or made of a thin film; gauzy.
• adj. Covered by (or as if by) a film; hazy.

gauze

• n. A thin fabric with a loose, open weave.
• n. A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing.
• n. A thin woven metal or plastic mesh.
• n. Wire gauze, used as fence.
• n. Mist or haze.
• v. To apply a dressing of gauze.
• v. To mist.

gauzy

• adj. having the qualities of gauze; light, thin, transparent, hazy.
• adj. figuratively light, giving the effect of haze.

netting

• n. Something that acts as, or looks like, a net.
• n. (Britain, dialect, dated) urine.
• v. present participle of net.

see-through

• adj. transparent or translucent; that can be seen through.

sheer

• adj. (textiles) Very thin or transparent.
• adj. (obsolete) Pure in composition; unmixed; unadulterated.
• adj. (by extension) Downright; complete; pure.
• adj. Used to emphasize the amount or degree of something.
• adj. Very steep; almost vertical or perpendicular.
• adv. (archaic) Clean; quite; at once.
• n. (nautical) The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern.
• n. (nautical) An abrupt swerve from the course of a ship.
• v. (chiefly nautical) To swerve from a course.
• v. (obsolete) To shear.

strand

• n. The shore or beach of the sea or ocean; shore; beach.
• n. (poetic, archaic or regional) The shore or beach of a lake or river.
• n. A small brook or rivulet.
• n. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A passage for water; gutter.
• n. A street (perhaps from similarity of shape).
• v. (transitive, nautical) To run aground; to beach.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
• n. Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
• n. A string.
• n. An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.
• n. (electronics) A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
• n. (broadcasting) A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
• n. (figuratively) A sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
• n. (genetics) A nucleotide chain.
• v. (transitive) To break a strand of (a rope).

thin

• adj. Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
• adj. Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
• adj. Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
• adj. Of low viscosity or low specific gravity, e.g., as is water compared to honey.
• adj. Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
• adj. (golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head…
• adj. Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
• adj. Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
• n. (philately) A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete…
• n. Any food produced or served in thin slices.
• v. (transitive) To make thin or thinner.
• v. (intransitive) To become thin or thinner.
• v. To dilute.
• v. To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
• adv. Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.

transparent

• adj. (of a material or object) See-through, clear; having the property that light passes through it almost…
• adj. (of a system or organization) Open, public; having the property that theories and practices are publicly…
• adj. Obvious; readily apparent; easy to see or understand.
• adj. (signal processing) Having the property of transparency, i.e. sufficiently accurate that the compressed…

vaporous

• adj. Relating to vapour; misty, foggy, obscure, insubstantial.

vapourous

• adj. Alternative form of vaporous.

veiling

• v. present participle of veil.
• n. The act of covering with a veil.