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diaphanous::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | cobwebby, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous |
a hat with a diaphanous veil.
Examples of diaphanous
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Strong shoulders, bike shorts, and lacy or diaphanous leggings were everywhere.
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The oldest breaks into a neighbor women's boudoir and steals a diaphanous nightie.
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His love-objects tended to be abstract figures, diaphanous goddesses and the like.
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There are ceiling fans and hanging lights covered in diaphanous white fabric.
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At dawn, a brown cloud stretches over the landscape like a diaphanous dirty blanket.
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They are woven into a diaphanous rectangle, like lace hanging on the wall.
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Google celebrated the International Women's Day with a bright, semi-diaphanous doodle.
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In one of the boutique areas, he pauses to leaf through a rack of diaphanous dresses.
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Dudamel was a sleight-of-hand artist with Ravel's diaphanous dissolves.
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- 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"
- In the field of optics, transparency (also called pellucidity or diaphaneity) is the physical property of allowing light to pass through a material; translucency (also called translucence or translucidity) only allows light to pass through diffusely. The opposite property is opacity. ...
- (adj.) light, airy, transparent (Sunlight poured in through the diaphanous curtains, brightening the room.)
- Extremely thin and transparent.
- Gauzy or translucent
