wispy
/ˈwɪspi
/adjective (wispier, wispiest)
(Of hair, threads, smoke, etc.) fine; feathery: the sky was blue with a few wispy clouds...
- It had just a few little wispy feathers growing out of it, which made it look even more eerie.
- Thin, wispy clouds sailed from the east, from the direction of the great ocean.
- Lia ran a hand through her hair and leaned forward, allowing a few wispy tendrils to straggle free from her messy ponytail.
Synonyms
thin, fine, feathery, flyaway, straggly
Derivatives
wispily
- The emphasis is on freeform melancholy: Lorson's fragile piano and Coté's slide guitar bob along wispily, unhindered by structural imperatives, and often adding up to a lot of nothing.
- The same hair on the head of a fair scrubbed child, would sit with the stance of curls and ringlets, or blow wispily across a white neck.
- Her black hair was tied back very loosely, which made several tendrils escape and hang wispily around her angular face.
wispiness
- They are hauntingly beautiful in their transparency and wispiness - but mostly they are beautiful to me right now because they don't mean much to me yet.
- The slow-motion wispiness of this Liverpool band recalls both Richard Hawley's dead-of-night musings and the relentless melancholy of Eric Andersen's Blue River.
- Most were shown in a big, open space that accentuated their wispiness.