wispy
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wispy
adj. slender, light; small; resembling or consisting of thin threads

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wispy

Adjective
1. thin and weak; "a wispy little fellow with small hands and feet"- Edmund Wilson
(synonym) wisplike
(similar) thin, lean
2. lacking clarity or distinctness; "a dim figure in the distance"; "only a faint recollection"; "shadowy figures in the gloom"; "saw a vague outline of a building through the fog"; "a few wispy memories of childhood"
(synonym) dim, faint, shadowy, vague
(similar) indistinct


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wispy
příd.jm. chomáčkovitý; stoupající v obláčcích

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wispy
Przym. rzadki i postrzępiony; strzępiasty; zwiewny

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wispy
Synonyms and related words:
airy, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, breakable, brittle, cheap-jack, cobwebby, crumbly, dainty, delicate, delicately weak, diaphanous, diluted, effeminate, ethereal, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy, fragile, frail, frangible, gauzy, gimcrack, gimcracky, girlish, gossamer, gossamery, gracile, insubstantial, jerry, jerry-built, lacy, light, lightweight, misty, namby-pamby, papery, pasteboardy, puny, rare, rarefied, shattery, sissified, sleazy, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, subtle, svelte, sylphlike, tacky, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, unsubstantial, vague, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, willowy, wiredrawn, womanish
  

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