diaphanous

Speech parts

1. diaphanous - Adjective

2. diaphanous - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Allowing light to pass through, as porcelain; translucent or transparent; pellucid; clear.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

transparent sheer see-through gossamer delicate translucent insubstantial filmy gauzy cobwebby vaporous vapourous gauze-like airy lacy
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Antonyms

solid opaque strong heavy critical substantial
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Related terms

diaphanously diaphanousness

Phrases with the word

diaphanous roof

Examples

I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws. S. J. Perelman

Over the sturdy nakedness of truth the diaphanous veil of phantasy. José Maria Eça de Queiroz

Then he knew that they had rounded the cape of good hope, and he took her large, soft hand again and covered it with forlorn little kisses, first the hard metacarpus, the long, discerning fingers, the diaphanous nails, and then the hieroglyphics of her destiny on her perspiring palm. Gabriel García Márquez

a hat with a diaphanous veil Source: Internet

filmy wings of a moth Source: Internet

gauzy clouds of dandelion down Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

diaphanoscopic diaphanoscopy diaphanotype diaphanous roof diaphanously diaphanousness