wispy
Thin and delicate
Wispy describes something thin, delicate, and insubstantial—like fine strands barely there.
Wispy hair is sparse and flyaway.
Wispy clouds are light streaks across the sky.
A wispy voice is faint and breathy.
The word suggests fragility and impermanence: wispy threads of smoke, a wispy mustache, wispy memories of childhood.
Filmy, delicate material
- diaphanousDelicately translucent
- filmyThin and translucent
- sheerAbsolute; also diaphanous
- translucentPermitting diffused light passage
lacy · silken · cobweb · filigree · chiffon · tulle · organza · gauzy
High wispy ice formation
Resembling a specter
- spectralGhostlike or wavelength-related
- phantomInsubstantial apparition
- apparitionVisible supernatural manifestation
- wraithlikeResembling a ghost
shadowy · haunting · otherworldly · incorporeal · intangible · ephemeral · fleeting · transient
gossamer
Filmy, delicate material
- diaphanousDelicately translucent
- filmyThin and translucent
- sheerAbsolute; also diaphanous
translucent · lacy · silken · cobweb · filigree · chiffon · tulle · organza · gauzy · floaty
cirrus
High wispy ice formation
mist · fog · haze · steam · smoke · puff · drift · trail · tendril · plume
ghostly
Resembling a specter
- spectralGhostlike or wavelength-related
- phantomInsubstantial apparition
- apparitionVisible supernatural manifestation
wraithlike · shadowy · haunting · otherworldly · incorporeal · intangible · ephemeral · fleeting · transient · evanescent
strand
Thin fiber piece
tuft · fringe · tress · curl · cowlick · feathery · fine · thin · sparse · stray
slender
Thin and graceful
spindly · willowy · frail · scant · meager · threadlike · stringy · reedy · skeletal · gaunt
- hairhair, haircut, hairstyle, hair loss, coily
- handwritingcursive, block letters, penmanship, print letters, legible
- skinnythin, slim, slender, lean, skinny
- sound qualitiesloudness, pitch, tone, faintness, clarity
- delicatedelicate, fragile, dainty, frail, tender
- lightweightfeatherweight, flyweight, bantamweight, strawweight, ultralight
- wispy hairFine, sparse head covering
- wispy clouds
- will o wispGhostly marsh light
- will o' the wispPhantom light over marshes
wisp, wisps, wispiness, wisped, wisping, wispier, wisplike, wispiest