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Definition of gauzy:
- Pertaining to, or resembling, gauze; thin and slight as gauze.
Synonyms:
indistinguishable, keen, undefined, gossamery, guileless, lucid, clarified, downright, sheer, sensitive, excellent, crystal clear, obscure, smoggy, aerial, gauzelike, see through, frothy, smooth, clouded, unsubstantial, subtle, sharp, pale, splendid, small, vaporous, handsome, elegant, unmixed, exquisite, vaporific, plain, unmingled, absolute, insubstantial, ethereal, nice, pellucid, cobwebby, vaporish, out-and-out, transparent, filmy, dainty, befogged, fine, airy, vapourific, brumous, vapory, thick, crystalline, gauze-like, vague, blear, soupy, gossamer, dim, sleazy, diaphanous, minute, slender, bold, beclouded, miasmic, aery, subtile, shadowy, bluff, pure, opaque, indistinct, beautiful, tenuous, indefinite, clear, vapourous, right-down, thin, vapourish, delicate, light, refined, undetermined, comminuted, miasmal, polished, slight, nebulous, blurry, rank.
Usage examples:
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She seemed so like the warm soft spirit of all womanhood that only the measured rising and falling of her bosom, under the gauzy drapery, made her seem human and not a spirit.
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It was a lovely half- mourning; airy sorrows, gauzy griefs, you might imagine to constitute the wearer.
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Having the good fortune to possess candles, I used sometimes to read under my gauzy canopy.