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filmy

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Adjective
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film=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

filmya. 
     Composed of film or films.  [1913 Webster]
    "Whose filmy cord should bind the struggling fly."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

filmy, adj. (filmier, filmiest)
1 thin and translucent.
2 covered with or as with a film.

Derivative
filmily adv. filminess n.

THESAURUS

filmy

attenuate, attenuated, beclouded, blear, bleared, bleary, blurred, blurry, clear, clear as crystal, clouded, cloudy, cobwebby, confused, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, dainty, dark, delicate, diaphane, diaphanous, dim, downy, faint, feeble, fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained, finespun, flimsy, fluffy, foggy, foliaceous, foliated, fuzzy, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, half-seen, half-visible, hazy, ill-defined, in layers, inconspicuous, indefinite, indistinct, indistinguishable, insubstantial, lamellar, lamellate, lamellated, lamelliform, laminate, laminated, laminous, leaflike, leafy, light, light-pervious, limpid, low-profile, lucid, membranous, merely glimpsed, milky, misty, murky, nonopaque, obscure, opalescent, out of focus, pale, pearly, peekaboo, pellucid, pubescent, refined, revealing, satin, satiny, scummy, see-through, semivisible, shadowy, sheer, silky, smooth, spathic, spathose, stratified, stratiform, thin, thin-spun, three-ply, translucent, transparent, transpicuous, two-ply, uncertain, unclear, unclouded, undefined, unplain, unrecognizable, vague, velutinous, velvety, weak, wiredrawn

ROGET THESAURUS

filmy

Layer

N layer, stratum, strata, course, bed, zone, substratum, substrata, floor, flag, stage, story, tier, slab, escarpment, table, tablet, dess, flagstone, board, plank, trencher, platter, plate, lamina, lamella, sheet, foil, wafer, scale, flake, peel, coat, pellicle, membrane, film, leaf, slice, shive, cut, rasher, shaving, integument, eschar, stratification, scaliness, nest of boxes, coats of an onion, monolayer, bilayer, trilayer, lamellar, lamellated, lamelliform, layered, laminated, laminiferous, micaceous, schistose, schistous, scaly, filmy, membranous, pellicular, flaky, squamous, foliated, foliaceous, stratified, stratiform, tabular, discoid, spathic, spathose, trilamellar, graphitic.

Texture

N texture, structure (form), organization, anatomy, frame, mold, fabric, construction, framework, carcass, architecture, stratification, cleavage, substance, stuff, compages, parenchyma, constitution, staple, organism, organography, osteology, myology, splanchnology, neurology, angiography, adeology, angiography, adenography, texture, surface texture, intertexture, contexture, tissue, grain, web, surface, warp and woof, warp and weft, tooth, nap, flatness (smoothness), fineness of grain, coarseness of grain, dry goods, silk, satin, muslin, burlap, histology, structural, organic, anatomic, anatomical, textural, textile, fine grained, coarse grained, fine, delicate, subtile, gossamery, filmy, silky, satiny, coarse, homespun, rough, gritty, smooth, smooth as silk, smooth as satin.


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