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Gossamer vs Gossamerlike - What's the difference?

gossamer | gossamerlike |

As adjectives the difference between gossamer and gossamerlike

is that gossamer is tenuous, light, filmy or delicate while gossamerlike is resembling gossamer; light and airy.

As a noun gossamer

is a fine film or strand as of cobwebs, floating in the air or caught on bushes etc.

gossamer

English

Noun

  • A fine film or strand as of cobwebs, floating in the air or caught on bushes etc.
  • A soft, sheer fabric.
  • Anything delicate, light and flimsy.

    • Derived terms

    * gossamery (adjective)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tenuous, light, filmy or delicate.
  • * (Thomas Bailey Aldrich) (1836-1907)
    • The heaven was spangled with tremulous stars, and at the horizon the clouds hung down in gossamer folds—God's robe trailing in the sea!
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./1/2
    • , passage=He walked. To the corner of Hamilton Place and Picadilly, and there stayed for a while, for it is a romantic station by night. The vague and careless rain looked like threads of gossamer silver passing across the light of the arc-lamps.}}

    Synonyms

    * gossamery

    gossamerlike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling gossamer; light and airy.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 14, author=Jennifer Steinhauer, title=L.A.’s Top Banana . . ., work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The popular Jin Patisserie in Venice serves a rarefied twist on the banana-cream pie, with caramel bananas and mascarpone cream set into a gossamerlike sponge cake topped with tiny dots of dark chocolate. }}