Adjective gossamer has 2 senses
  1. ethereal, gossamer - characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy; "this smallest and most ethereal of birds"; "gossamer shading through his playing"
    Antonym: rugged (indirect, via delicate)
  2. diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, cobwebby - so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks"
    Antonym: thick (indirect, via thin)
,Noun gossamer has 2 senses
  1. gossamer - a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture
    --1 is a kind of
    gauze, netting, veiling
  2. cobweb, gossamer - filaments from a cobweb
    --2 is a kind of fibril, filament, strand
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