wispy


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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for wispy

thin and weak

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lacking clarity or distinctness

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It's a useful plant because it belongs to a group of herbaceous plants that are best described as "floaty" - they drift delicately through the border, their wispy white flowers appearing as if to float magically in the air.
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What two-word name can mean a wispy cirrus cloud and a pond plant?
While grown-ups dressed in red costumes with wispy white beards, children donned green elf outfits to run the 3.4-miles course through the city center.
The styles, which can be worn all year long, include Soft and Dramatic, Naturally Lush, Wispy and Flared, Everyday Length, and Barely There.
"I have a long chin and fine wispy hair that flops and straggles so I knew I would have emerged looking like Boris Johnson after a long bike ride which works for him but not for me" - TV's Esther Rantzen (pictured) on why she never visited the late Vidal Sassoon's hairdressing saloon.
Cirrus clouds: These wispy clouds look wispy in part:because they're so high up, where there's very little water vapor to form into clouds.
What you don't want is stubble, which will happen if you shave off the wispy hair.
After a flawless trip to the International Space Station, Nasa's oldest shuttle swooped through a few wispy clouds on its way to its final touchdown.
Their wispy, feathery green leaves make an attractive foil for other border plants, while their flat, plate-like flower clusters come in a vast array of colours from whites and creams, to yellows, pinks and crimsons.
The little boy, maybe three years old has black wispy hair and
Held at the Perez Salon and Spa in Chevy Chase, MD, the Perez Artistic Team showcased cuts that were long and textured or short and blunt; rich block coloring techniques that created slight texture and depth, and styles that were very natural and wispy, classic and smooth.
For amateurs with large telescopes, the Veil Nebula--a wispy supernova remnant--is one of the most-sought deep-sky objects of autumn evenings.