The difference between Gossamer and Gossamery

When used as adjectives, gossamer means tenuous, light, filmy or delicate, whereas gossamery means like gossamer.


Gossamer is also noun with the meaning: a fine film or strand as of cobwebs, floating in the air or caught on bushes, etc.

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  1. Gossamer as a noun:

    A fine film or strand as of cobwebs, floating in the air or caught on bushes, etc.

  2. Gossamer as a noun:

    A soft, sheer fabric.

  3. Gossamer as a noun:

    Anything delicate, light and flimsy.

  1. Gossamer as an adjective:

    Tenuous, light, filmy or delicate.

    Examples:

    "The heaven was spangled with tremulous stars, and at the horizon the clouds hung down in gossamer folds—God's robe trailing in the sea!"

  1. Gossamery as an adjective:

    Like gossamer; flimsy.

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