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gossamerlike

gossamerlike adjective: resembling gossamer; light and airy.

Adjective

gossamerlike (comparative more gossamerlike, superlative most gossamerlike)

  1. Resembling gossamer; light and airy.
    • The popular Jin Patisserie in Venice serves a rarefied twist on the banana-cream pie, with caramel bananas and mascarpone cream set into a gossamerlike sponge cake topped with tiny dots of dark chocolate.2007 January 14, Jennifer Steinhauer, “L.A.’s Top Banana . . .”, in New York Times

Forms of gossamerlike

comparativemore gossamerlike
superlativemost gossamerlike

Origin of gossamerlike

From gossamer + -like.

Questions about gossamerlike

What does gossamerlike mean?
Gossamerlike means resembling gossamer; light and airy.
What part of speech is gossamerlike?
Gossamerlike is an adjective.

Words near gossamerlike in the dictionary

  1. gossamer-thin
  2. gossamer-winged butterflies
  3. gossamer-winged butterfly
  4. gossamere
  5. gossamered
  6. gossamerlike
  7. gossamers
  8. gossamery
  9. gossampine
  10. gossampines
  11. gossan

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