Thesaurus / papery
FEEDBACKsynonyms for papery
synonyms for papery
- shaky
- decrepit
- insubstantial
- tacky
- rickety
- feeble
- shallow
- gossamer
- wobbly
- frail
- slight
- defective
- delicate
- diaphanous
- fragile
- gauzy
- inadequate
- infirm
- meager
- sheer
- slapdash
- sleazy
- superficial
- transparent
- unsound
- unsubstantial
- weak
- chiffon
- cut-rate
- house of cards
- rinkydink
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antonyms for papery
MOST RELEVANT
- serious
- reasonable
- tough
- substantial
- solid
- heavy
- firm
- thick
- sound
- strong
- plausible
- convincing
- sturdy
- healthy
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How to use papery in a sentence
The biggest turtle eggs today are just a few inches long, with papery thin shells.
A FOSSILIZED EGG LAID BY AN EXTINCT, HUMAN-SIZED TURTLE HOLDS A RARE JACKPOTMONROE HAMMONDAUGUST 18, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEAn inspector in 2016 flagged a package coming into the San Francisco airport holding a papery insect nest but not mentioning insects on the label.
FOCUSING ON ASIAN GIANT HORNETS DISTORTS THE VIEW OF INVASIVE SPECIESSUSAN MILIUSJULY 1, 2021SCIENCE NEWSPowell's is the largest bookstore in the world, an endless, multi-storey universe of papery smells and towering shelves.
LITTLE BROTHERCORY DOCTOROWThe fronds are smooth, deep-green in color, slightly paler beneath, and of a rather firm papery texture.
BEAUTIFUL FERNSDANIEL CADY EATONThe lowest Marsupials as regards the ossicles are the Peramelidae, whose ossicles are of a frail papery consistence.
THE VERTEBRATE SKELETONSIDNEY H. REYNOLDSThe small burs have a thin, papery lining, and short, widely-branching spines.
FRUITS OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDSGERRIT PARMILE WILDERFruit a fleshy pome, with the cells formed by papery or cartilaginous membranes within juicy flesh.
TREES OF THE NORTHERN UNITED STATESAUSTIN C. APGARPome fleshy or berry-like; the 2–5 carpels or cells of a papery or cartilaginous texture, 2-seeded.
THE MANUAL OF THE BOTANY OF THE NORTHERN UNITED STATESASA GRAYThey are slender and needlelike with loose papery sheaths, silvery-white and glistening, giving the species its specific name.
THE FANTASTIC CLANJOHN JAMES THORNBERThe thorns have yellowish tips and light red-brown bodies covered with loose papery sheaths of a silvery sheen.
THE FANTASTIC CLANJOHN JAMES THORNBERWORDS RELATED TO PAPERY
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.