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Filmy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of, resembling, or consisting of film; gauzy: filmy lingerie. See Synonyms at airy.

adj. Covered by or as if by a film; hazy.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Resembling or made of a thin film; gauzy

adj. Covered by (or as if by) a film; hazy

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Composed of film or films.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Composed of thin membranes or pellicles, or of fine threads; resembling a film.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. so thin as to transmit light

Word Usage

"Now, the suffering outweighs the enjoyment and just thinking about the stuff makes my innards do an unpleasant serpentine dance that might be inviting were it happening with a pretty lady in filmy draperies on stage rather than inside my guts where the appeal is distinctly lacking."

Equivalent

thin

Variant

filmier filmiest

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

clouded flimsy cloudy finespun gauzy pellicular

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

Lacy gauzy silken woolen flimsy translucent silvery gossamer lavender fleecy