gauziest

Adjective

gauzy (comparative gauzier, superlative gauziest)

1. Resembling gauze; light, thin, translucent.
   • But first I took up Ayesha's kirtle and the gauzy scarf with which she had been wont to hide her dazzling loveliness from the eyes of men, and, averting my head so that I might not look upon it, covered up that dreadful relic of the glorious dead, that shocking epitome of human beauty and human...1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   gauzelike

2. (figuratively) light; giving the effect of haze
3. (figuratively) vague or elusive
   • Or perhaps something darker—a raw hunger, a blind ambition wrapped in the gauzy language of service?2020, Barack Obama, A Promised Land, Crown
4. (figuratively) tinged with tenderness and warmth; dewy-eyed, romantic
   • 2003: Although the books are scored in different keys—Clinton’s generally attempts to be gauzy and warm, Blumenthal’s is edgy and cold—their underlying refrain is the same. — The New Yorker, 14 July 2003