gauze-like
Thin and translucent
Gauze-like describes something resembling gauze—thin, loosely woven, and somewhat transparent.
The word applies to fabrics, mists, or anything with a delicate, filmy quality: gauze-like curtains filtered the afternoon light, a gauze-like haze hung over the valley.
Delicately translucent
- gossamerFilmy, delicate material
- translucentPermitting diffused light passage
- see-throughAllowing vision through
- filmyThin and translucent
transparent · wispy · delicate · fine · ethereal · chiffon · voile · organza
Wound covering strip
- dressingSauce for salads
- sterileFree from microorganisms
- woundCoiled, or an injury
- absorbentAble to soak up
surgical · compress · cotton · swab · antiseptic · pad · lint · cheesecloth
Light and well-ventilated
- floatyTending to drift upward
- featheryLight and soft-textured
- billowySwelling in soft waves
- flimsyWeak and easily damaged
insubstantial · weightless · buoyant · wafting · drifting · flowing · filamentous · cobweb
Caught or cleared profit
- meshInterlocking open weave
- porousAllowing passage of fluids
- fibrousMade of threads
- threadbareWorn until transparent
tattered · frayed · coarse · permeable · latticed · interlaced · holey · ventilated
diaphanous
Delicately translucent
- gossamerFilmy, delicate material
- translucentPermitting diffused light passage
- see-throughAllowing vision through
filmy · transparent · wispy · delicate · fine · ethereal · chiffon · voile · organza · tulle
bandage
Wound covering strip
absorbent · surgical · compress · cotton · swab · antiseptic · pad · lint · cheesecloth · muslin
airy
Light and well-ventilated
flimsy · insubstantial · weightless · buoyant · wafting · drifting · flowing · filamentous · cobweb · thin
netted
Caught or cleared profit
threadbare · tattered · frayed · coarse · permeable · latticed · interlaced · holey · ventilated · breathable