[syn: dim, faint, shadowy, vague, wispy]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
wispy
adj 1: thin and weak; "a wispy little fellow with small hands
and feet"- Edmund Wilson [syn: wisplike, wispy]
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" [syn: dim,
faint, shadowy, vague, wispy]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
75 Moby Thesaurus words for "wispy":
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