gauzy

adjective gauzier · gauziest

1. Resembling gauze; light, thin, translucent. But first I took up Ayesha's kirtle and the gauzy scarf with which she had been wont to hide her dazzling loveliness from the eyes of men, and, averting my head so that I might not look upon it, covered up that dreadful relic of the glorious dead, that shocking epitome of human beauty and human life
2. figuratively light; giving the effect of haze
3. figuratively vague or elusive Or perhaps something darker—a raw hunger, a blind ambition wrapped in the gauzy language of service?
4. figuratively tinged with tenderness and warmth; dewy-eyed, romantic 2003: Although the books are scored in different keys—Clinton’s generally attempts to be gauzy and warm, Blumenthal’s is edgy and cold—their underlying refrain is the same. — The New Yorker, 14 July 2003