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as in gauzy
being of a material lacking in sturdiness or substance
fairies are usually depicted as wearing gossamer or tattered clothing
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as in fluffy
resembling air in lightness
the gossamer veil seemed to float about the bride as she walked down the aisle
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as in sheer
very thin and easy to see through
didn't see the gossamer spider webs until the sun hit them just right
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Recent Examples of gossamer
Charles Q. Choi, Scientific American, 11 Dec. 2019
But his most impressive skill is the ancient art of gilding, using gossamer sheets of gold leaf just .12 microns thick to add a brilliant metallic effect to lettering.
—Jeff Csatari, Popular Mechanics, 9 Dec. 2019
Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 13 Sep. 2025
Though billed as an Office spinoff, Daniels and Koman wisely choose to make the connective tissue between the shows gossamer thin.
—Kristen Baldwin, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for gossamer
Adjective
Both would be coated with a gossamer-thin layer of gold for reflectivity and bathed in faint laser beams to detect their oscillations—and thus their temperature.
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But what truly sets it apart is its gossamer-thin weight.
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In ’50s England, her professional academic lesbian shows up in a provocatively sexy outfit with a gauzy bodice.—
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The smocked bodice hugs just right without feeling tight, and the gauzy cotton moves beautifully—light and breathable enough for even the stickiest summer days.—
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Another quick and easy dump-and-bake recipe, this cake relies on boxed mix and instant pudding for its fluffy texture.—
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There’s no fine dining, no fluffy robes.—
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The Rhode founder stunned in a sheer black mesh teddy with a G-string thong design and an ab-baring cutout made out of straps.—
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But the department has argued the sheer volume of documents that need to be found, uploaded, reviewed, redacted and published has forced it to instead release the files online on a rolling basis, with a series of enormous document dumps over the course of several days in mid-December.—
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The pandemic-era financial froth — SPACs, meme stocks, and crypto fever — was supposed to die with rising interest rates.—
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The Street, which was already concerned about AI froth, became worried about Broadcom's partnership with Google-parent Alphabet.—
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Are the clasps and hinges sturdy, not flimsy?—
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But the advent of the transfer portal has made the hope for a return investment even flimsier.—
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Meanwhile, a transparent, independent and untainted investigation is not optional.—
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If democracies refrain from asking these questions in public, others who are less transparent and less accountable will answer them for us.—
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The pistachio flavor became an ice cream sensation in the 1940s, with desserts like green fluff and Watergate salad following suit in the 1970s.—
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Tight, snappy, and long on info and short on fluff, TDS gathers the latest headlines from around the globe and puts them in one place.—
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Where Aytaç was large but poised, Abdi was insubstantial, scrawny, and unsteady on his feet.—
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Republican lawmakers and state attorneys general have challenged the basis of those recommendations, arguing that the evidence used to support them is insubstantial.—
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“Gossamer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gossamer. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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