Definition for Cobwebby:

• so thin as to transmit light; " a hat with a diaphanous veil"; " filmy wings of a moth"; " gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; " gossamer cobwebs"; " sheer silk stockings"; " transparent chiffon"; " vaporous silks"

Synonyms for Cobwebby:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • cobwebby.
  •filmy (adjective)
  • delicate,
  • wispy,
  • insubstantial,
  • fine,
  • flimsy,
  • dainty.
  •sheer (adjective)
  • airy,
  • pellucid,
  • fragile,
  • soft,
  • smooth,
  • limpid,
  • pure,
  • slight,
  • translucent,
  • lucid,
  • lacy,
  • clear.

• n.

  •cobwebby (noun)
  • thin.

• Other synonyms:

  •adj.
  • chiffon,
  • filmy,
  • fine-grained,
  • floaty,
  • sheer,
  • tiffany,
  • see through,
  • seethrough.
  •n.
  • diaphanous,
  • gauzy,
  • gossamer,
  • transparent,
  • vaporous,
  • gauze-like,
  • vapourous,
  • see-through.
  •Other relevant words:
  • absolved,
  • abstemious,
  • acquit,
  • aerial,
  • aeriform,
  • aery,
  • afford,
  • aired,
  • alight,
  • all the way,
  • alright,
  • amercement,
  • apparently,
  • apprehensible,
  • arrant,
  • assailable,
  • assoil,
  • attest,
  • authorise,
  • authorize,
  • average,
  • balmy,
  • banality,
  • bare,
  • begrime,
  • bemire,
  • biological,
  • bland,
  • bluff out,
  • blunt,
  • bold face,
  • boldface,
  • bopeep,
  • born,
  • brassy,
  • brickle,
  • brickly,
  • brighten,
  • brightness,
  • brightness level,
  • bring in,
  • bromide,
  • brumous,
  • bubbling,
  • bubbly,
  • bum,
  • buoyant,
  • cab,
  • cancel,
  • candid,
  • capable,
  • celestial,
  • certify,
  • champaign,
  • chartaceous,
  • cheap,
  • cheating,
  • cheesy,
  • childlike,
  • chintzy,
  • chop,
  • cissy,
  • clean,
  • clean-cut,
  • clear up,
  • clear-cut,
  • cleared,
  • clearly,
  • close-grained,
  • cobweb,
  • coherent,
  • cold,
  • colly,
  • comfortable,
  • complain,
  • complete,
  • comprehendible,
  • consummate,
  • contaminating,
  • cool,
  • crummy,
  • crying,
  • crystalise,
  • crystalize,
  • crystallise,
  • crystallize,
  • curve,
  • cushy,
  • cut,
  • decipherable,
  • delicacy,
  • delicately,
  • demonstrate,
  • dewy-eyed,
  • diffuse,
  • diffused,
  • diluent,
  • dilutant,
  • dilute,
  • dim,
  • dim-witted,
  • dingy,
  • discernible,
  • discharge,
  • dismount,
  • double-dyed,
  • drudge,
  • dusty,
  • earn,
  • easily,
  • easygoing,
  • effervescent,
  • effervescing,
  • egregious,
  • elementary,
  • elucidate,
  • emasculate,
  • enlighten,
  • epicene,
  • evaporable,
  • everlasting,
  • evidence,
  • evidently,
  • exculpate,
  • exculpated,
  • exonerate,
  • exonerated,
  • exposed,
  • exquisite,
  • exquisitely,
  • faint,
  • fall,
  • fallible,
  • field,
  • filthy,
  • finely,
  • finespun,
  • fire,
  • fire up,
  • flabby,
  • flaccid,
  • flagrant,
  • flash,
  • flashy,
  • fluent,
  • fluid,
  • foaming,
  • foamy,
  • foggy,
  • forthright,
  • foul,
  • four flush,
  • frank,
  • free-spoken,
  • friable,
  • frowsty,
  • fusty,
  • gain,
  • garish,
  • gaudy,
  • gentle,
  • get down,
  • get off,
  • gimcrack,
  • give,
  • glaring,
  • goody,
  • grade,
  • graspable,
  • grime,
  • gross,
  • gutless,
  • hack on,
  • hack writer,
  • hacker,
  • hackney carriage,
  • hackney coach,
  • hazy,
  • homely,
  • humdrum,
  • hunky-dory,
  • idle,
  • ignite,
  • igniter,
  • ignitor,
  • ill-gotten,
  • illume,
  • illuminate,
  • illumination,
  • illumine,
  • imperfect,
  • impractical,
  • impure,
  • indulgent,
  • infrangible,
  • innate,
  • inner light,
  • instinctive,
  • inviolable,
  • jackanapes,
  • jade,
  • kick,
  • kickshaw,
  • knit,
  • knit stitch,
  • kvetch,
  • lacelike,
  • lean,
  • legato,
  • leisurely,
  • lenient,
  • lifelike,
  • light source,
  • light up,
  • light within,
  • light-colored,
  • light-headed,
  • lighter,
  • lightheaded,
  • lighting,
  • lightly,
  • lightness,
  • lightsome,
  • liquid,
  • lite,
  • literary hack,
  • little,
  • logical,
  • loose,
  • loud,
  • lousy,
  • low-cal,
  • luculent,
  • luminance,
  • luminosity,
  • luminousness,
  • machine politician,
  • make,
  • manifestly,
  • marked-up,
  • melt off,
  • membership,
  • mephitic,
  • mere,
  • meretricious,
  • mild,
  • moldy,
  • mouldy,
  • muddied,
  • muddy,
  • mulct,
  • nag,
  • net,
  • netlike,
  • netted,
  • nice,
  • observable,
  • obviously,
  • okay,
  • old-hat,
  • onionskin,
  • open up,
  • opened,
  • order,
  • ordinary bicycle,
  • ostensible,
  • outdoors,
  • outrank,
  • overnice,
  • palpable,
  • paperlike,
  • pass,
  • patent,
  • patently,
  • perceivable,
  • perch,
  • percipient,
  • perfect,
  • perpendicularly,
  • pestiferous,
  • piano,
  • place,
  • placid,
  • plain stitch,
  • plainly,
  • plainspoken,
  • platitude,
  • plug,
  • point-blank,
  • polish,
  • politic,
  • political hack,
  • powdered,
  • powdery,
  • prissy,
  • promiscuous,
  • prosaic,
  • prosperous,
  • pulverised,
  • pulverized,
  • punk,
  • quetch,
  • quiet,
  • range,
  • rank and file,
  • rate,
  • ratty,
  • raw,
  • readable,
  • ready-made,
  • realise,
  • realize,
  • rebuff,
  • receptive,
  • reduce,
  • round-eyed,
  • rude,
  • runty,
  • sack,
  • sack up,
  • saturated,
  • scant,
  • scintillating,
  • seamy,
  • seedy,
  • seeming,
  • semitransparent,
  • shabby,
  • shadowy,
  • shed light on,
  • shine,
  • shoddy,
  • shopsoiled,
  • short,
  • shrimpy,
  • simple-minded,
  • simpleton,
  • sissy,
  • sissyish,
  • slender,
  • slenderize,
  • slew,
  • slim,
  • slim down,
  • slow,
  • slowly,
  • slue,
  • sluttish,
  • small-grained,
  • smooth out,
  • smoothen,
  • social rank,
  • social station,
  • social status,
  • sodding,
  • soil,
  • solve,
  • sonant,
  • sordid,
  • sort out,
  • sound off,
  • spare,
  • spark,
  • sparkle,
  • sparkly,
  • sparse,
  • spineless,
  • spread,
  • spumy,
  • squalid,
  • squeamish,
  • staring,
  • stark,
  • stereotypic,
  • stereotypical,
  • still,
  • stock,
  • straighten out,
  • suave,
  • subdued,
  • subject,
  • supernal,
  • surface,
  • svelte,
  • swerve,
  • swooning,
  • tardily,
  • tatty,
  • tawdry,
  • taxi,
  • taxicab,
  • tenuous,
  • thin out,
  • thinly,
  • thorough,
  • thoroughgoing,
  • ticket,
  • ticklish,
  • tinny,
  • toffee,
  • toffy,
  • top,
  • touchy,
  • tranquil,
  • trashy,
  • treat,
  • trend,
  • tripping,
  • twinkle,
  • unaccented,
  • unadulterated,
  • unannealed,
  • unclouded,
  • unclutter,
  • uncomplicated,
  • uncompounded,
  • unconvincing,
  • undecided,
  • undefendable,
  • undefended,
  • understandable,
  • undetermined,
  • unembellished,
  • unfastened,
  • unfold,
  • unglamorous,
  • unglamourous,
  • unhorse,
  • unimaginative,
  • unmistakable,
  • unmortgaged,
  • unornamented,
  • unpatterned,
  • unproblematic,
  • unreal,
  • unresolved,
  • unruffled,
  • unsporting,
  • unsportsmanlike,
  • unsubdivided,
  • unvarnished,
  • utter,
  • vague,
  • vaporizable,
  • veer,
  • very well,
  • vestal,
  • vindicated,
  • virginal,
  • virtuous,
  • visible light,
  • visible radiation,
  • visionary,
  • vocal,
  • voiced,
  • volatilisable,
  • volatilizable,
  • wakeful,
  • wanton,
  • ward-heeler,
  • weak,
  • webbed,
  • webby,
  • weblike,
  • well-defined,
  • well-fixed,
  • well-heeled,
  • well-off,
  • well-situated,
  • well-to-do,
  • whippersnapper,
  • whoop,
  • wide-eyed,
  • windy,
  • wishy-washy,
  • wisplike,
  • heart-to-heart,
  • open air,
  • take in,
  • pull in,
  • straight-from-the-shoulder,
  • calorie-free,
  • vapourisable,
  • virgin,
  • ok,
  • all right,
  • cold-shoulder,
  • cut up,
  • out-of-doors,
  • spread out.

Antonyms for Cobwebby:

• adj.

  • filmy
    clear, nontransparent, translucent, opaque, substantial, clean.
  • sheer
    impermeable, dark, uncertain, moderate, thick, slow, indefinite.
  • Other antonyms:
    durable, invigorating, energizing, cloudy, sturdy, gripping, misty, lusterless, murky, fresh, drab, enlivening, absorbing, foggy, exciting, lackluster, knockabout, engrossing, heavy, unfamiliar, strange, intriguing, coarse, animating, interesting, novel, original, unusual, lasting, unknown, uncommon, unhackneyed, stimulating, tough, engaging, atypical, rude, dull, hazy, galvanizing, unaccustomed, unheard-of, new, riveting, rough, nebulous, extraordinary, smoky, unprecedented.

• Other antonyms:

  • n.
    fat, full, inspissate, make clean, thicken, uncontaminating, unobjectionable.

Cobwebby Sentence Examples:

• " That is because she is pure gold, through and through," said the lame girl as she deftly plied her needle in the cobwebby lace collar she was mending.

• Therefore, she ascended the cobwebby stairway, emerged from it into the former hay loft, and thus made her appearance in the printing - room of The North End Daily Oriole.