| 单词 | gossamer |
| 释义 | gossamer (once / 5054 pages) nadj Gossamer is something super fine and delicate — like a spider web or the material of a wedding veil. The original gossamer, from which these meanings come from, is the fine, filmy substance spiders excrete to weave their webs. A dress can be gossamer-like, if its fabric is so sheer as to be see-through, or almost. Your chances of going to a good college are "gossamer thin" if you've never cracked a book in high school. WORD FAMILYgossamer: gossamers USAGE EXAMPLESThe answer is a resounding yes for viewers who buy-into this gossamer musical fantasy. Salon(Dec 14, 2016) The allegations against Comet Ping Pong, reported by the New York Times, are absurd on their face and detached from any gossamer thread of fact. Washington Post(Nov 25, 2016) That’s reason enough to dip into this graceful if gossamer book. New York Times(Nov 15, 2016) 1n a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture Hyper gauze, netting, veiling a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave 2n filaments from a web that was spun by a spider Syn|Hyper cobweb fibril, filament, strand a very slender natural or synthetic fiber 3adj characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy gossamer shading through his playing Syn ethereal delicate exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury 4adj so thin as to transmit light gossamer cobwebs Syn cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous thin of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section |
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