Papery

Synonyms for "papery" (101 found)

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Closest matches (21)

thin airy atrophied attenuate attenuated boyish breakable brittle chartaceous cheap-jack cobwebby crumbly dainty delicate delicately weak desiccated diaphanous diluted dried up dried-up

Adjective(1 words)

chartaceous

Strong matches (30)

effeminate emaciated ethereal fine fine drawn fine-drawn finespun flimsy fragile frail frangible gauzy gimcrack gimcracky girlish gossamer gossamery gracile insubstantial jerry

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jerry built jerry-built lacy light lightweight misty namby pamby namby-pamby

Adjective(1 words)

paperlike

Adjective(1 words)

papyraceous

Related words (50)

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6 relation types

More specific

3 entries

paper-thin paperish paperlike

Synonyms

1 entries

chartaceous

derived

2 entries

paperily paperiness

derived from

1 entries

paper

related to

2 entries

paper paperiness

similar

2 entries

thin

Translations

7 translations across 4 languages.

Arabic

2 entries

ورقي adj (being like paper)
ورقية adj (being like paper)

Finnish

2 entries

paperimainen adj (being like paper)
paperinohut adj (being like paper)

Italian

1 entries

cartaceo adj (being like paper)

Latin

2 entries

chartarius adj (being like paper)
papyraceus adj (being like paper)

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Medlars have a very thin papery skin.

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