Noun

  1. a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture
    • Less specific
      • gauze
      • netting
      • veiling
    • Related
      • ethereal
      • gossamer
  2. filaments from a web that was spun by a spider
    • Synonyms
      • cobweb
    • Less specific
      • fibril
      • filament
      • strand
    • Related
      • ethereal
      • gossamer

Adjective

  1. characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy; “this smallest and most ethereal of birds”; “gossamer shading through his playing”
    • Synonyms
      • ethereal
    • Similar to
      • delicate
    • Related
      • cobweb
      • gossamer
      • gossamer
  2. 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”
    • Synonyms
      • diaphanous
      • filmy
      • gauzy
      • gauze-like
      • see-through
      • sheer
      • transparent
      • vaporous
      • vapourous
      • cobwebby
    • Similar to
      • thin
    • Related
      • cobweb
      • transparency
      • transparence
      • transparency
      • transparence
      • transparentness
      • gauze
      • netting
      • veiling
      • film
      • plastic film

gossamer - LookUp

noun

  1. a fine, filmy substance consisting of cobwebs spun by small spiders, seen especially in autumn

a light, thin, and insubstantial or delicate material or substance a fine gossamer fabric that clung to her skin

Origin

Middle English : apparently from goose + summer , perhaps from the time of year around St Martin’s summer, i.e. early November, when geese were eaten (gossamer being common then)

Thesaurus

Noun

  1. her dress swirled like gossamer

Similar Words: cobweb spider’s web silk silky substance Japanese silk gauze tissue chiffon thistledown down feather

Adjective

  1. beautiful ladies in gossamer veils

Similar Words: ultra-fine fine diaphanous gauzy gauze-like gossamer-thin gossamer-like gossamery delicate filmy floaty chiffony cobwebby feathery silky silken wispy thin light lightweight insubstantial papery flimsy frail translucent transparent see-through sheer transpicuous translucid

Opposites: heavy opaque

Urban Dictionary

A big red fuck That gigantic red hairy monster that often chased bugs bunny. A cobweb on a bush

Gossamer was trying to rape me, so i ran away and hid in a bush that was covered in gossamers.