Resembling gauze in appearance, texture, or transparency; thin, delicate, and semi-transparent.
Compound word from 'gauze' (a thin translucent fabric) plus '-like' (a productive English suffix meaning 'similar to' or 'having the qualities of'). The '-like' suffix is one of the oldest and most flexible in English.
The '-like' suffix is so useful that English speakers add it to almost anything—'butterfly-like,' 'cloud-like'—but 'gauzelike' is special because gauze itself is already defined by its transparency, so the word becomes delightfully self-referential!
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