I am completely agog over your diaphanous dress.
Source: tatoeba (529643)
Diaphanous
//daɪˈæf.ən.əs//
Synonyms for "diaphanous" (107 found)
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Strong matches (32)
Related words (53)
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Antonyms
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4 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesderived
3 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
13 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
42 translations across 20 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- διαφανής adj (transparent; allowing light to pass through)
Bulgarian
2 entries- прозирен adj (of a fine, almost transparent texture)
- прозрачен adj (transparent; allowing light to pass through)
Catalan
2 entries- diàfan adj (transparent; allowing light to pass through)
- transparent adj (transparent; allowing light to pass through)
Dutch
3 entries- doorschijnend adj (transparent; allowing light to pass through)
- doorzichtig adj (transparent; allowing light to pass through)
- ragfijn adj (of a fine, almost transparent texture)
Esperanto
1 entries- diafana adj (of a fine, almost transparent texture)
Finnish
4 entries- harsomainen adj (of a fine, almost transparent texture)
- hieno adj (of a fine, almost transparent texture)
- läpikuultava adj (transparent; allowing light to pass through)
- läpinäkyvä adj (transparent; allowing light to pass through)
French
2 entries- diaphane adj (transparent; allowing light to pass through)
- diaphane adj (of a fine, almost transparent texture)
German
4 entries- diaphan adj (transparent; allowing light to pass through)
- diaphan adj (of a fine, almost transparent texture)
- durchscheinend adj (transparent; allowing light to pass through)
- durchscheinend adj (of a fine, almost transparent texture)
Greek
1 entries- διαφανής adj (transparent; allowing light to pass through)
Hungarian
2 entries- átlátszó adj (transparent; allowing light to pass through)
- áttetsző adj (of a fine, almost transparent texture)
Ido
1 entries- diafana adj (transparent; allowing light to pass through)
Italian
3 entries- diafano adj (of a fine, almost transparent texture)
- ialino adj (transparent; allowing light to pass through)
- trasparente adj (transparent; allowing light to pass through)
Occitan
1 entries- diafan adj (of a fine, almost transparent texture)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- شفاف adj (transparent; allowing light to pass through)
- شفاف adj (of a fine, almost transparent texture)
Polish
1 entries- ażurowy adj (transparent; allowing light to pass through)
Russian
1 entries- прозра́чный adj (of a fine, almost transparent texture)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- dijafan adj (transparent; allowing light to pass through)
- dijafan adj (of a fine, almost transparent texture)
- providan adj (transparent; allowing light to pass through)
- proziran adj (transparent; allowing light to pass through)
Spanish
1 entries- diáfano adj (transparent; allowing light to pass through)
Swedish
3 entries- florstunn adj (of a fine, almost transparent texture)
- genomskinlig adj (transparent; allowing light to pass through)
- skir adj (of a fine, almost transparent texture)
Tagalog
1 entries- masilim adj (of a fine, almost transparent texture)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
This diaphanous glass is green and blue.
Source: tatoeba (9647516)
The butterfly's wings look like the petals of a diaphanous flower.
Source: tatoeba (11195676)
Divine is the clarity of your eyes, which are diaphanous like crystal drops.
Source: tatoeba (11235349)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.