Gauzy

Quick meaning: Gauzy is an adjective meaning Resembling gauze; light, thin, translucent.

Meaning

Resembling gauze; light, thin, translucent.

More Meanings

1. (figurative) light; giving the effect of haze
2. (figurative) vague or elusive
3. (figurative) tinged with tenderness and warmth; dewy-eyed, romantic

Example Sentences

Or perhaps something darker—a raw hunger, a blind ambition wrapped in the gauzy language of service?

Were she but the daring equestrienne jumping through the flaming hoops, little it would matter to her if her gauzy skirts did catch.

2003: Although the books are scored in different keys—Clinton’s generally attempts to be gauzy and warm, Blumenthal’s is edgy and cold—their underlying refrain is the same. — The New Yorker, 14 July 2003

The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marshes was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds.

Word Forms

• gauzier
• gauziest

Synonyms for gauzy

Depending on context, synonyms include gauzelike, gossamer, diaphanous, vaporous, thin, transparent.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include filmy, sheer, vaporous, diaphanous, transparent, see-through.

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