wispy

wisp  (wsp)

n.

1. A small bunch or bundle, as of straw, hair, or grass.

2.

a. One that is thin, frail, or slight.

b. A thin or faint streak or fragment, as of smoke or clouds.

3. A fleeting trace or indication; a hint: a wisp of a smile.

4. A flock of birds, especially snipe. See Synonyms at flock¹.

5. See ignis fatuus.

v. wisped, wisp·ing, wisps

v.tr.

To twist into wisps or a wisp.

v.intr.

To drift in wisps: smoke wisping from chimneys.

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[Middle English.]

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wispi·ly adv.

wispi·ness (wsp-ns) n.

wispy adj.

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wispy

Adjective

[wispier, wispiest] thin, fine, or delicate: grey wispy hair

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	wispy - thin and weak; "a wispy little fellow with small hands and feet"- Edmund Wilson wisplike lean, thin - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare
	2.	wispy - 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" dim, faint, shadowy, vague indistinct - not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand; "indistinct shapes in the gloom"; "an indistinct memory"; "only indistinct notions of what to do"

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wispy

adjective 1. straggly, fine, thin, frail, wisplike

2. thin, light, fine, delicate, fragile, flimsy, ethereal, insubstantial, gossamer, diaphanous, wisplike