A wisp of hair fell over his left eye.
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Wisp
//wɪsp//
Synonyms for "wisp" (79 found)
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Closest matches (16)
Strong matches (24)
Related words (39)
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2 entriesderived
1 entrieshas context
2 entriesis a
4 entriesrelated to
21 entriesShowing 16 of 21 words.
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2 entriesTranslations
47 translations across 23 languages.
Arabic
3 entries- حُزْمَة noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
- خَيْط noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
- خُصْلَة noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
Bulgarian
1 entries- кичур noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
Catalan
3 entries- borrall noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
- borralló noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
- bri noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 束 noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
- 绺 noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
- 缕 noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
Czech
3 entries- pramínek (vlasů, trávy) noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
- proužek (dýmu) noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
- vích noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
Dutch
1 entries- sliert noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
Finnish
1 entries- nippu noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
French
3 entries- brin noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
- fétu noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
- touffe noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
Georgian
1 entries- კონა noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
German
4 entries- Haarbüschel noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
- Strohbündel noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
- Strähne noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
- Wisch noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
Irish
1 entries- dlaoi noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
Italian
4 entries- ciocca noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
- legnolo noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
- pagliuzza noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
- trefolo noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
Old Czech
1 entries- viech noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
Old Slovak
1 entries- viecha noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Wesch noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
Polish
3 entries- kosmyk noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
- kłęby noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
- wstęga noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
Portuguese
1 entries- tufo noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
Romanian
2 entries- șuvițe noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
- șuviță noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
Russian
1 entries- пучо́к noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
Slovak
1 entries- viecha noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
Spanish
4 entries- brizna noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
- jirón noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
- mechón noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
- voluta noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
Turkish
2 entries- tutam noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
- tutam saç noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
Ukrainian
1 entries- віхоть noun (a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance)
Sample sentences
19 total sentences available.
A solemn wisp of smoke rose from the shattered city.
Source: tatoeba (10522439)
A wisp of smoke rose from the chimney.
Source: tatoeba (12858698)
A wisp of smoke rose from the candle for a few moments after he blew it out.
Source: wiktionary
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