wisps
Thin curling traces
Wisps is the plural of wisp—thin, delicate strands or fragments of something: wisps of smoke rose from the chimney, wisps of hair escaped her braid.
The word suggests lightness and insubstantiality.
A wisp of a girl is slight and fragile.
Will-o'-the-wisps are elusive lights over marshes, or by extension, any misleading goal.
Liquor or apparitions
- ghostsSpirits of the deceased
- apparitionsSupernatural visible manifestations
- spectersVisible ghostly presences
- phantomsApparitions, especially illusory
wraiths · souls · shades · mist · fog · spectral · haunting · otherworldly
Slender coiling growths
- curlsSpiraling hair sections
- plumesShowy feathers or rising columns
- trailsMarked outdoor paths
- spiralsCurves circling a center
haze · drift · swirl · billow · waft · cigarette · incense · campfire
High wispy ice formation
- streaksLong thin marks
- mare's-tailsHigh wispy cloud formations
- high-altitudeElevated atmospheric position
- featheryLight and soft-textured
thin · scattered · drifting · trailing · stretched · filmy · pale · white
spirits
Liquor or apparitions
- ghostsSpirits of the deceased
- apparitionsSupernatural visible manifestations
- spectersVisible ghostly presences
phantoms · wraiths · souls · shades · mist · fog · spectral · haunting · otherworldly · supernatural
tendrils
Slender coiling growths
spirals · haze · drift · swirl · billow · waft · cigarette · incense · campfire · chimney
cirrus
High wispy ice formation
- streaksLong thin marks
- mare's-tailsHigh wispy cloud formations
- high-altitudeElevated atmospheric position
feathery · thin · scattered · drifting · trailing · stretched · filmy · pale · white · faint
strands
Twisted filaments or elements
tresses · curls · fringe · loose · stray · escaping · fine · baby · grey · white
traces
Slight remaining amounts
slivers · scraps · threads · tatters · hints · suggestions · faint · thin · slight · barely
- wispy hairFine, sparse head covering
- wispy clouds
- will o wispGhostly marsh light
- will o' the wispPhantom light over marshes
wisp, wispy, wispiness, wisped, wisping, wispier, wisplike, wispiest, will-o'-the-wisp