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[ gaw-zee ] / ˈgɔ zi / SEE SYNONYMS FOR gauzy ON THESAURUS.COM
adjective, gauz·i·er, gauz·i·est.like gauze; transparently thin and light. Origin of gauzyFirst recorded in 1790–1800; gauze + -y1 OTHER WORDS FROM gauzygauz·i·ly, adverbgauz·i·ness, nounWords nearby gauzygaussmeter, Gautama, Gauteng, Gautier, gauze, gauzy, gavage, Gavard's muscle, Gavarnie, Gavaskar, gave Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for gauzyAchtung Baby's ironic astringency was a successful reaction to Rattle and Hum's gauzy sincerity. U2 Drops ‘Invisible’ to Remind You the Band Exists|Howard Wolfson|February 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST In other words, it may be that the only thing more seductive than the lure of the comfy life is the gauzy embrace of nostalgia. This Is Why Your Kid Is Fat|Kent Sepkowitz|November 25, 2013|DAILY BEAST But I also learned more recently not to put a gauzy, Instagram filter on the life of Nelson Mandela. The Meaning of Mandela|Joshua DuBois|June 30, 2013|DAILY BEAST All this occurred well before memories had become distant or gauzy. What Director Alan Pakula’s Papers Reveal About Watergate|Max Holland|June 12, 2012|DAILY BEAST
In theory, at least, they return home with gauzy thoughts and memories of the United States. Feds Bust Student Exchange Program|Lois Romano|October 21, 2011|DAILY BEAST The younger Cary handed her in with great care of her flowers and gauzy draperies, and great reluctance in relinquishing her hand. The level plain between the island hills is streaked with gauzy mist. With Rimington|L. March Phillipps She was clad in some material of a gauzy and yet opaque texture, permitting the full outline and the least movement to be seen. The Open Air|Richard Jefferies The gauzy web is being delivered into the can in front of the carding machine. Clothing and Health|Helen Kinne These gauzy ribbons fell from it almost of their own accord, and hung in fleecy festoons about it. Summer Cruising in the South Seas|Charles Warren Stoddard
British Dictionary definitions for gauzy
adjective gauzier or gauziestresembling gauze; thin and transparent Derived forms of gauzygauzily, adverbgauziness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to gauzytranslucent, delicate, diaphanous, filmy, flimsy, insubstantial, light, lucid, pellucid, sheer, thin, transparent, tiffany |