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Definition of wispy in English: wispyadjectivewispiest, wispier ˈwɪspiˈwɪspi (of hair, threads, smoke, etc.) fine; feathery. the sky was blue with a few wispy clouds Example sentencesExamples - It had just a few little wispy feathers growing out of it, which made it look even more eerie.
- Thin, wispy clouds sailed from the east, from the direction of the great ocean.
- He's so thin and wispy it looks like if I touched him he'd break like a china doll.
- His wispy brown hair is flecked with gray, a striking contrast to his crimson face.
- Lia ran a hand through her hair and leaned forward, allowing a few wispy tendrils to straggle free from her messy ponytail.
Synonyms thin, fine, feathery, flyaway, straggly
Derivativesadverb The dark-haired girl scoffed, shaking a strand of wispily cut hair from her eyes. Example sentencesExamples - Her black hair was tied back very loosely, which made several tendrils escape and hang wispily around her angular face.
- As a sly wind breathed wispily beneath my collared shirt, I opened the main doors to the school and stepped inside.
- The emphasis is on freeform melancholy: Lorson's fragile piano and Coté's slide guitar bob along wispily, unhindered by structural imperatives, and often adding up to a lot of nothing.
- The same hair on the head of a fair scrubbed child, would sit with the stance of curls and ringlets, or blow wispily across a white neck.
noun Most were shown in a big, open space that accentuated their wispiness. Example sentencesExamples - The slow-motion wispiness of this Liverpool band recalls both Richard Hawley's dead-of-night musings and the relentless melancholy of Eric Andersen's Blue River.
- Your hair is straightened and it has the perfect wispiness to it.
- They are hauntingly beautiful in their transparency and wispiness - but mostly they are beautiful to me right now because they don't mean much to me yet.
- ‘Natural gracefulness and wispiness is emphasized for curly hair this year,’ said Chen.
Definition of wispy in US English: wispyadjectiveˈwispēˈwɪspi (of hair, threads, smoke, etc.) fine; feathery. the sky was blue with a few wispy clouds Example sentencesExamples - His wispy brown hair is flecked with gray, a striking contrast to his crimson face.
- Thin, wispy clouds sailed from the east, from the direction of the great ocean.
- It had just a few little wispy feathers growing out of it, which made it look even more eerie.
- Lia ran a hand through her hair and leaned forward, allowing a few wispy tendrils to straggle free from her messy ponytail.
- He's so thin and wispy it looks like if I touched him he'd break like a china doll.
Synonyms thin, fine, feathery, flyaway, straggly
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