Gauzy

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling gauze; light, thin, translucent.

    "But first I took up Ayesha's kirtle and the gauzy scarf with which she had been wont to hide her dazzling loveliness from the eyes of men, and, averting my head so that I might not look upon it, covered up that dreadful relic of the glorious dead, that shocking epitome of human beauty and human life."

  2. 2
    light; giving the effect of haze figuratively
  3. 3
    vague or elusive figuratively

    "Or perhaps something darker—a raw hunger, a blind ambition wrapped in the gauzy language of service?"

  4. 4
    tinged with tenderness and warmth; dewy-eyed, romantic figuratively

    "2003: Although the books are scored in different keys—Clinton’s generally attempts to be gauzy and warm, Blumenthal’s is edgy and cold—their underlying refrain is the same. — The New Yorker, 14 July 2003"

Adjective
  1. 1
    so thin as to transmit light wordnet

Etymology

From gauze + -y.

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