wispy as an adjective: - 1
- 2
wispy
adjective
1 wispy
Thin and weak:
— A wispy little fellow with small hands and feet.
synonym: wisplike.
2 wispy
Lacking clarity or distinctness:
— A few wispy memories of childhood.
synonyms: dim, faint, shadowy, vague.
Moby thesaurus: airy, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, breakable, brittle, cheap-jack, cobwebby, crumbly, dainty, delicate, delicately weak, diaphanous, diluted, effeminate, ethereal, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy, fragile, frail, frangible, gauzy, gimcrack, gimcracky, girlish, gossamer, gossamery, gracile, insubstantial, jerry, jerry-built, lacy, light, lightweight, misty, namby-pamby, papery, pasteboardy, puny, rare, rarefied, shattery, sissified, sleazy, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, subtle, svelte, sylphlike, tacky, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, unsubstantial, vague, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, willowy, wiredrawn, womanish ... show more.
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