1 thin and weak; "a wispy little fellow with
small hands and feet"- Edmund Wilson [syn: wisplike]
2 lacking clarity or distinctness; "a dim figure
in the distance"; "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" [syn: dim, faint, shadowy, vague] [also: wispiest, wispier]
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, womanishEnglish
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪspi