Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Resembling gauze in texture or appearance; very thin, light, and often semi-transparent: Describes something that has the delicate, sheer, or filmy quality of gauze fabric, allowing light to pass through easily.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The dancer wore a gauze-like skirt that floated around her as she moved.
  • Morning fog created a gauze-like veil over the valley.
  • The artist used a gauze-like material to create a soft, diffused effect in the installation.

Advanced Usage

• Descriptive Use: Often used in literary or descriptive contexts to evoke a sense of delicacy, lightness, and partial transparency.
  • The memories had a gauze-like quality, soft and slightly out of focus.

Variants and Related Words

• Gauzy (adj): Very thin and light, similar to gauze.
  • Sheer, gauzy curtains billowed in the breeze.
• Diaphanous (adj): (Formal) Light, delicate, and translucent.
  • A diaphanous gown.
• Filmy (adj): Thin and often slightly opaque or hazy.
  • Filmy layers of mist.
• Sheer (adj): Very thin and fine, almost completely transparent.
  • Sheer stockings.
• Gossamer (adj/n): Extremely light, delicate, and insubstantial.
  • Gossamer threads of a spider's web.

Synonyms

• Transparent
• See-through
• Translucent
• Cobwebby
• Vaporous

Related Phrases

• As thin as gauze: An idiomatic comparison emphasizing extreme thinness.
  • The fabric was as thin as gauze.

Adjective

1. so thin as to transmit light
   • a hat with a diaphanous veil
   • filmy wings of a moth
   • gauzy clouds of dandelion down
   • gossamer cobwebs
   • sheer silk stockings
   • transparent chiffon
   • vaporous silks