Synonyms for Papery | WordToolSet

Synonyms for "papery" (109 found)

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Closest matches (22)

Adjective(3 words)

airy atrophied attenuate attenuated boyish breakable brittle cheap-jack cobwebby crumbly dainty delicatedelicately weakdesiccated diaphanous diluteddried updried-up effeminate

Strong matches (33)

emaciated ethereal finefine drawnfine-drawn finespun flimsy fragile frail frangible gauzy gimcrack gimcracky girlish gossamer gossamery gracile insubstantial jerryjerry built

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jerry-built lacy light lightweight mistynamby pambynamby-pamby

Adjective(1 words)

flimsy

Noun(5 words)

onionskin paperpaper modelpaper modelspaper product

Related words (54)

Noun(3 words)

paper receiptpaper sheetpaper workbook

parchmenty pasteboardy puny rare rarefied sere shattery shriveled shrunken sissified sleazy slender slenderish slight slight-made slim slimmish slinky small subtle

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Adjective(3 words)

shallow superficial thin

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

3 entries

adjective descriptorqualitative attribute

More specific

4 entries

flimsy argumentpapery membranepapery sheetsurface level analysis

Collocations

6 entries

papery filmpapery layerpapery membranepapery skinpapery surfacepapery texture

Inflections

2 entries

more paperymost papery

Derivations

2 entries

paper paperlike

similar

1 entries

thin

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Medlars have a very thin papery skin.

Source: tatoeba (11477351)

Papery