Crossword-Solution: DIAPHANOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Diaphanous | a. | Allowing light to pass through, as porcelain; translucent or transparent; pellucid; clear. |
We have 25 clues for the answer “DIAPHANOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Delicately sheer or gauzy in texture | 1 answer |
| Almost transparent | 1 answer |
| Nearly pellucid | 1 answer |
| filmy wings of a moth | 1 answer |
| sheer silk stockings | 1 answer |
| so thin as to transmit light | 1 answer |
| transparent chiffon | 1 answer |
| Like butterfly wings | 2 answers |
| Limpid | 8 answers |
| Translucent | 11 answers |
| Pellucid | 16 answers |
| Gauzy | 18 answers |
| Gossamer | 27 answers |
| glassy | 30 answers |
| Ethereal | 38 answers |
| filmy | 40 answers |
| Through | 63 answers |
| unclouded | 65 answers |
| Sheer | 66 answers |
| flimsy | 68 answers |
| airy | 69 answers |
| Obvious | 73 answers |
| Transparent | 73 answers |
| Revealing | 76 answers |
| CLEAR ___ | 106 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
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greedy person
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Sentences with DIAPHANOUS (5)
THE HOLLOW AMID THE FERNS The hill opposite one end of Bathsheba’s dwelling extended into an uncultivated tract of land, covered at this season with tall thickets of brake fern, plump and diaphanous from recent rapid growth, and radiant in hues of clear and untainted green.
From edge to edge of the world marched the constellations, like the progress of emperors, and from the innumerable glory of their courses a mysterious sheen of diaphanous light disengaged itself, expanding over all the earth, serene, infinite, majestic.
This phantom wore many faces, but it always had golden hair, was enveloped in a diaphanous cloud, and floated airily before his mind’s eye in a pleasing chaos of roses, peacocks, white ponies, and blue ribbons.
The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marshes was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds.
Yet all the while she beheld the burly cynical Frenchman and the diaphanous dancers as clearly as the child sees its air-born playmates; she relished the Camp Fire Girls not because, in Vida's words, “this Scout training will help so much to make them Good Wives,” but because she hoped that the Sioux dances would bring subversive color into their dinginess.
Quotes with DIAPHANOUS (3)
A writer's goal is to weave the ordinary into fine silk and the truly extraordinary into diaphanous clarity ...
I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.
We all travelled light, taking with us only what we considered to be the bare essentials of life. When we opened our luggage for Customs inspection, the contents of our bags were a fair indication of character and interests. Thus Margo’s luggage contained a multitude of diaphanous garments, three books on slimming, and a regiment of small bottles each containing some elixir guaranteed to cure acne. Leslie’s case held a couple of roll-top pullovers and a pair of trousers which…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1970–2014).