Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a wisp or some aspect of one.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective thin and weak

Etymologies

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wisp +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Tall, wisplike, with the kind of angelic beauty that makes even the most hard-core hip-hop fan hear harps when she walks past in the corridor.

    The Redleys Matt Haig 2010

  • Tall, wisplike, with the kind of angelic beauty that makes even the most hard-core hip-hop fan hear harps when she walks past in the corridor.

    The Redleys Matt Haig 2010

  • Tall, wisplike, with the kind of angelic beauty that makes even the most hard-core hip-hop fan hear harps when she walks past in the corridor.

    The Redleys Matt Haig 2010

  • Tall, wisplike, with the kind of angelic beauty that makes even the most hard-core hip-hop fan hear harps when she walks past in the corridor.

    The Redleys Matt Haig 2010

  • But in New Iberia the air was dead, superheated, stained with the smell of dead water beetles, the trees traced with the wisplike patterns of fireflies.

    Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

  • But in New Iberia the air was dead, superheated, stained with the smell of dead water beetles, the trees traced with the wisplike patterns of fireflies.

    Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

  • In the air where he had stood was the faint smoke-thin outline of a man, limned in the most wisplike of golden fogs.

    Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

  • A tangled black beard hung wisplike from the dirty _chuddah_ that draped his head, and above it two eyes, fevered and furtive, peered strangely forth.

    The Lamp in the Desert 1910

  • He laughed high-keyed, sardonic laughter; he scolded, he quavered, he pleaded, he was finally choked with sobs; while as for his wife, she, poor little wisplike body, early succumbed to whatever is Venetian for nervous prostration.

    My Friend the Chauffeur Frederic [Illustrator] Lowenheim 1901

  • AAA towing A successful compounding of flavors and colors: wisplike slices of carrots, sweetish grapes, naive onion spicy Ushneiclunim Neimohim of goat cheeseflower.

    UH Watch 2010

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