gauzier; gauziest
1
: made of or resembling gauze
gauzy wings
2
: marked by vagueness, elusiveness, or fuzziness
his gauzy memory of the events
a gauzy melody
3
: tending to be or make romantic
gauzy optimism

Examples of gauzy in a Sentence

gauzy curtains that let plenty of light through I have only a gauzy recollection of those long-ago events.
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Bridges were needed not just to fulfill a gauzy City Beautiful dream, but for practical reasons. Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Mar. 2022 Having grown up working in his mother’s Los Angeles hair salon, Bradford adopted a primary artmaking material that is not paint, but rather small gauzy papers used to curl hair. Matthew Bourbon, Dallas News, 22 Apr. 2020 The women, on the other hand, were dressed in long blue leggings under gauzy dresses, with baggy race T-shirts pulled over the whole ensemble. Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Apr. 2020 The fragrance itself is marketed as a light and airy floral, reminiscent of wearing a gauzy cotton sundresses in a field of daffodils, which is where Gerber shot the recent campaign alongside friends and fellow models Adut Akech and Meghan Roche. Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 18 Apr. 2020 See all Example Sentences for gauzy 

Word History

First Known Use

1760, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of gauzy was in 1760

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“Gauzy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gauzy. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.

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