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Wispy   /wˈɪspi/   Listen
Wispy

adjective
1.
Thin and weak.  Synonym: wisplike.
2.
Lacking clarity or distinctness.  Synonyms: dim, faint, shadowy, vague.  "Only a faint recollection" , "Shadowy figures in the gloom" , "Saw a vague outline of a building through the fog" , "A few wispy memories of childhood"






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"Wispy" Quotes from Famous Books



... topsails, jib and driver, pushing contemptuously aside the turbulent crowd of noisy and agitated waves. As the craft went swiftly ahead she unrolled behind her over the uneasy darkness of the sea a broad ribbon of seething foam shot with wispy gleams of dark discs escaping from under the rudder. Far away astern, at the end of a line no thicker than a black thread, which dipped now and then its long curve in the bursting froth, a toy-like object could be made out, elongated and dark, racing after the brig over ...
— The Rescue • Joseph Conrad

... rain was falling in sheets. They stood in the doorway while the hall-porter called a cab. Piccadilly on such a night as this looked perhaps more decisively dreary than a rain-soaked country lane, or storm-driven sand-dunes by the sea. For wet humanity, with wispy hair and swishing petticoats, draggled with desire for shelter, is a piteous vision as ...
— Flames • Robert Smythe Hichens



Words linked to "Wispy" :   lean, thin, indistinct, wisp



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