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Filmy definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FILM'Y, a. Composed of thin membranes or pellicles.
Whose filmy cord should bind the struggling fly.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks" [syn: diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous, cobwebby]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (filmier; -est) Date: 1584 1. of, resembling, or composed of film ; gauzy <filmy draperies> 2. covered with a haze or film • filmily adverb • filminess noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (filmier, filmiest) 1 thin and translucent. 2 covered with or as with a film. Derivatives: filmily adv. filminess n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Filmy Film"y, a. Composed of film or films. Whose filmy cord should bind the struggling fly. --Dryden.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(filmier, filmiest) A filmy fabric or substance is very thin and almost transparent. ...filmy nightgowns. = diaphanous ADJ: usu ADJ n

Moby Thesaurus

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