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Papery

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

adj. Resembling paper, as in thickness or texture.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. being like paper

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Like paper; having the thinness or consistency of paper.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Like paper; having the thinness and consistency of paper; having the appearance or texture of paper.

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

adj. of or like paper

adj. thin and paperlike

Word Usage

"Close to her, very meek under her sheltering wing, were Sarah and Mary, the housemaids – very gay in papery silks, pink and green, with much adornment of wide yellow lace."

Equivalent

thin

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

paper chartaceous cartaceous papyraceous

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

drapery

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

raspy leatherlike lint-free deadspeak hardish