gossamer
adjective
1. characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy
- gossamer shading through his playing
Similar word(s): delicate, ethereal
2. so thin as to transmit light
- gossamer cobwebs
Similar word(s): thin, cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous
Sentences with gossamer as an adjective:
- The heaven was spangled with tremulous stars, and at the horizon the clouds hung down in gossamer folds—God's robe trailing in the sea!