papery

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Adjective
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pa=per=y

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective papery has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

paperya. 
     Like paper; having the thinness or consistency of paper.  Gray.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

papery, adj. like paper in thinness or texture.

THESAURUS

papery

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, ,

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