gossamery

• HYPHEN: gos=sa=mer=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

gossamery, a. 

 Like gossamer; flimsy.  [1913 Webster]
"The greatest master of gossamery affectation."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

gossamery

air-built, airy, attenuate, attenuated, breakable, brittle, bubbly, capillary, cheap-jack, chimerical, cirrose, cirrous, clear, clear as crystal, cloud-built, cobwebby, crumbly, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, dainty, delicate, delicately weak, diaphane, diaphanous, downy, dreamlike, effeminate, ethereal, fanciful, fatuitous, fatuous, feathery, fibered, fibroid, fibrous, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained, finespun, flagelliform, flimsy, flossy, fluffy, foamy, fragile, frail, frangible, frothy, funicular, fuzzy, gaseous, gauzy, gimcrack, gimcracky, gossamer, hairlike, hairy, illusory, imaginary, imponderous, jerry, jerry-built, leger, ligamental, light, light as air, light-pervious, lighter than vanity, lightweight, limpid, lucid, mousse, namby-pamby, nonopaque, papery, pasteboardy, peekaboo, pellucid, phantomlike, pubescent, puny, rarefied, refined, revealing, ropy, satin, satiny, see-through, shadowy, shattery, sheer, silky, sissified, sleazy, slight, smooth, souffle, spirituous, stringy, subtile, subtle, tacky, taeniate, taeniform, tenuous, thin, thin-spun, threadlike, thready, transparent, transpicuous, unclouded, unheavy, unreal, unsubstantial, vaporous, velutinous, velvety, volatile, weightless, windy, wiredrawn, wiry, wispy, womanish, yeasty

ROGET THESAURUS

gossamery

Unsubstantiality

N unsubstantiality, insubstantiality, nothingness, nihility, no degree, no part, no quantity, no thing, nothing, naught, nil, nullity, zero, cipher, no one, nobody, never a one, ne'er a one, no such thing, none in the world, nothing whatever, nothing at all, nothing on earth, not a particle, all talk, moonshine, stuff and nonsense, matter of no importance, matter of no consequence, thing of naught, man of straw, John Doe and Richard Roe, faggot voter, nominis umbra, nonentity, flash in the pan, vox et praeterea nihil, shadow, phantom, dream, ignis fatuus, such stuff as dreams are made of, air, thin air, vapor, bubble, baseless fabric of a vision, mockery, hollowness, blank, void, inanity, fool's paradise, unsubstantial, baseless, groundless, ungrounded, without foundation, having no foundation, visionary, immaterial, spectral, dreamy, shadowy, ethereal, airy, cloud built, cloud formed, gossamery, illusory, insubstantial, unreal, vacant, vacuous, empty, eviscerated, blank, hollow, nominal, null, inane, there's nothing in it, an ocean of dreams without a sound.

Levity

N levity, lightness, imponderability, buoyancy, volatility, feather, dust, mote, down, thistle, down, flue, cobweb, gossamer, straw, cork, bubble, balloon, float, buoy, ether, air, leaven, ferment, barm, yeast, lighter-than-air balloon, helium balloon, hydrogen balloon, hot air balloon, convection, thermal draft, thermal, light, subtile, airy, imponderous, imponderable, astatic, weightless, ethereal, sublimated, gossamery, suberose, suberous, uncompressed, volatile, buoyant, floating, portable, light as a feather, light as a thistle, light as air, lighter than air, rise like a balloon, float like a balloon.

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.