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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

airy, atrophied, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, breakable, brittle, cheap-jack, cobwebby, crumbly, dainty, delicate, delicately weak, desiccated, diaphanous, diluted, dried-up, effeminate, emaciated, ethereal, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy, fragile, frail, frangible, gauzy, gimcrack, gimcracky, girlish, gossamer, gossamery, gracile, insubstantial, jerry, jerry-built, lacy, light, lightweight, misty, namby-pamby, parchmenty, pasteboardy, puny, rare, rarefied, sere, shattery, shriveled, shrunken, sissified, sleazy, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, subtle, svelte, sylphlike, tacky, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, unsubstantial, vague, wasp-waisted, wasted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, willowy, wilted, wiredrawn, wispy, withered, wizened, womanish, wrinkled, ,

Dictionary Results for papery:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

papery
    adj 1: thin and paperlike; "papery leaves"; "wasps that make
           nests of papery material"
    2: of or like paper [syn: chartaceous, papery, paperlike]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

papery \pa"per*y\ (p[=a]"p[~e]r*[y^]), a.
   Like paper; having the thinness or consistency of paper.
   --Gray.
   [1913 Webster]

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