featherlight
Almost without mass
Featherlight means extremely light in weight, as light as a feather.
The word describes things with almost negligible heft: a featherlight pastry, featherlight fabric.
It extends to anything delicate or barely perceptible: a featherlight touch, featherlight footsteps.
Also spelled as two words or hyphenated.
Thin and insubstantial
- gossamerFilmy, delicate material
- billowySwelling in soft waves
- floatyTending to drift upward
- windblownDisplaced by gusts
diaphanous · gauzy · sheer · cloudlike · vaporous · misty · ethereal · delicate
Smooth and lustrous
- downyHaving soft, fine texture
- softYielding to touch
- gentleSoft and kind
- brushingSweeping motion with bristles
caress · velvet · smooth · cottony · fleecy · plush · satiny · tender
Able to float
- floatingStaying atop liquid
- hoveringSuspended without support
- driftingMoving without purpose
- levitatingSuspended in air
suspended · airborne · gliding · zero-gravity · lifting · rising · soaring · effortless
wispy
Thin and insubstantial
windblown · diaphanous · gauzy · sheer · cloudlike · vaporous · misty · ethereal · delicate · filmy
silky
Smooth and lustrous
brushing · caress · velvet · smooth · cottony · fleecy · plush · satiny · tender · cushiony
buoyant
Able to float
levitating · suspended · airborne · gliding · zero-gravity · lifting · rising · soaring · effortless · unburdened
fragile
Easily broken or damaged
intricate · filigree · lacy · finespun · translucent · papery · tissue-thin · frail · tenuous · breakable
featherlightburdensome
Difficult to endure
oppressive · crushing · onerous · laborious · backbreaking
light, feather, feathers, feathery, feathered, feathering, featherweights, feather-light