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In an age when stagecraft, gauzy themes, and sound-bites have too often been substituted for leadership, Bill Clinton as a candidate made it essential to campaigning to take the specifics of governance seriously. Practical solutions were 'in;' ideology was 'out.'
Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Meaning of "gauzy" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF GAUZY

gauzy  [ˈɡɔːzɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GAUZY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Gauzy is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES GAUZY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of gauzy in the English dictionary

The definition of gauzy in the dictionary is resembling gauze; thin and transparent.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GAUZY


Benghazi
bɛnˈɡɑːzɪ
breezy
ˈbriːzɪ
causey
ˈkɔːzɪ
cheesy
ˈtʃiːzɪ
easy
ˈiːzɪ
frawzey
ˈfrɔːzɪ
Gagauzi
ɡəˈɡɔːzɪ
ghazi
ˈɡɑːzɪ
greasy
ˈɡriːzɪ
Jacuzzi
dʒəˈkuːzɪ
jersey
ˈdʒɜːzɪ
kamikaze
ˌkæmɪˈkɑːzɪ
newsy
ˈnjuːzɪ
outdoorsy
ˌaʊtˈdɔːzɪ
Sarkozy
sɑːˈkɔːzɪ
sleazy
ˈsliːzɪ
speakeasy
ˈspiːkˌiːzɪ
Swazi
ˈswɑːzɪ
uneasy
ʌnˈiːzɪ
Uzi
ˈuːzɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GAUZY

gauntries
gauntry
gaup
gauper
gaur
Gause´s principle
gauss
Gaussian
Gaussian distribution
gaussmeter
Gautama
Gauteng
Gautier
gauze
gauzelike
gauzier
gauziest
gauzily
gauziness
gavage

WORDS THAT END LIKE GAUZY

bizzy
buzzy
cozy
crazy
dizzy
fizzy
floozy
frenzy
frizzy
frouzy
fuzzy
glitzy
hazy
jazzy
lazy
oozy
Orczy
snazzy
sneezy
wheezy

Synonyms and antonyms of gauzy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «GAUZY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «gauzy» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of gauzy

Translation of «gauzy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GAUZY

Find out the translation of gauzy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of gauzy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «gauzy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

淡淡的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

gauzy
570 millions of speakers

English

gauzy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जालीदार
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

رقيق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

прозрачная
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

diáfano
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পাতলা ত্ত স্বচ্ছ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

gaze
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Gauzy
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

hauchzart
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

紗のような
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

엷은
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gauzy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hơi khói
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

gauzy
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गबाळ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tüllü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

gauzy
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

lekką
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

прозора
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

străveziu
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αραχνοϋ´φαντο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

mistige
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

gauzy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sløret
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of gauzy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GAUZY»

The term «gauzy» is regularly used and occupies the 93.937 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GAUZY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about gauzy

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QUOTES WITH «GAUZY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word gauzy.
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Sylvia Mathews Burwell
In an age when stagecraft, gauzy themes, and sound-bites have too often been substituted for leadership, Bill Clinton as a candidate made it essential to campaigning to take the specifics of governance seriously. Practical solutions were 'in;' ideology was 'out.'

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GAUZY»

Discover the use of gauzy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to gauzy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Dead in a Gauzy Veil: A Mystery Story Set in Manhattan
A great debate is going on whether an Islamic center at ground zero will be appropriate or not. The story starts deceptively, with Dr. Martin seeing a patient who's dressed in a burqa.
R. N. Mitra, 2010
2
The Bonnot Gang
Frcidrich Nietzsche {1844-1900} i The wrath of Guichard THE POLICE WERE incensed by Jouin's death, especially since Bonnot had vanished without trace, and vented their fury on the unfortunate Gauzy, who was accused of leading the ...
Richard Parry
3
Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing ...
Take, for instance, the previously mentioned “just gauzy enough” ad for women's underwear, an ad that ex- emplifies the complex relationship between sexuality and control of the body. The ad reads in full: “Misses and ladies' underwear, not ...
Pablo Mitchell, 2008
4
On Hallowed Ground
Th8 Gauzy M OOl'L homeward bound the sky was almost dark the sun setting behind me the moon rising before me all was quiet on the road expectations of a full moon engulfed my thoughts it needs to be bright lighting up the sky it needs to  ...
Wanda Burse, 2013
5
Slices of My Life: So Far
Partly gauzy day over Brownsville Marina I'm so glad the sun has come back to visit. We had a whole spate of days where it appeared that someone had stretched a roll of gauze across the sky. Some days the gauze was white, some days a ...
6
Ramblings of a Restless Mind
Poetry: a gauzy shroud, veneer over your heart, mind and soul. It may not go with anything, it may not rhyme (Love it when it doesn't; Don't want see a caged bird try to sing) but if it throbs, it feels, has passion. If it has no rhyme but reason it has  ...
T. Beeth
7
Erceldoune & Other Stories
That gauzy haze, he realised abruptly, was Ireland. That gauzy have denoted the lights of Belfast. That gauzy haze was home. And somewhere in the opacity ahead, even before he reached that gauzy haze, there was Rathlin Island, and the ...
Richard Leigh, 2006
8
Bleak House
Besides the melancholy hoy, who, I hoped, had not been made so by waltzing alone in the empty kitchen, there where two other hoys, and one dirty little limp girl in a gauzy dress. Such a precocious little girl, with such a dowdy honnet on ( that, ...
Charles Dickens, 1867
9
Lonely Planet New York, Washington DC & the Mid-Atlantic Trips
Philly is chock-full of anachronistic historic collisions like this, where the past pushes right through the present, like a brick through a gauzy scrim, and you feel the trajectory of America in a jolting flash. The city actively cultivates this, of course.
Lonely Planet, Jeff Campbell, Adam Karlin, 2010
10
The Art of JAMA: Covers and Essays from The Journal of the ...
He moved easily from the harsh realities of the streets to the gauzy world of the American aristocracy. And while he saw the former in bold, decisive strokes, the latter was a more fragile world, filtered through sunlight and green grass, beheld  ...
M. Therese Southgate, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GAUZY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term gauzy is used in the context of the following news items.
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Glenn Reynolds: The Donald and Bernie show - USA Today
... to ordinary Democrats around the country, but that is concealed by the Obama administration's gauzy proclamations of economic recovery. «USA TODAY, Jul 15»
2
Our Lady of the Clouds at Capital Fringe - DC Theatre Scene
As they transition from one character to the next, they shed costume pieces and drape them around the stage, filling the gauzy blank space with ... «DC Theatre Scene, Jul 15»
3
Cinderella review – pagan thrills and a captivating heroine | Stage …
The transformation scene, with Cinderella (Anna Tsygankova) borne aloft in a gauzy shift dressed with pheasant feathers, is thrillingly pagan. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
4
The Skriker review – extraordinarily prescient | Stage | The Guardian
She is a tattered, winking Gloriana, a sleek, androgynous seducer in a tie, and a winsome elf with a teeny voice and gauzy wings. Churchill's ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
5
Lowering the flag and moving ahead | HeraldNet.com - Opinion …
... not to honor some gauzy vision of Southern valor but to resist the dismantling of Jim Crow segregation. The flag meant whites-only schools, ... «HeraldNet, Jul 15»
6
Trump and the GOP's dividing lines - Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier
"For all its crassness," says National Review's Rich Lowry, "Trump's rant on immigration is closer to reality than the gauzy cliches of immigration ... «Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier, Jul 15»
7
Courting fashion in the play ground - NewKerala
The gold material has to be in a see-through, transparent gauzy fabric with very subtle appeal to the eye. Inside, she can wear high-waist hot ... «New Kerala, Jul 15»
8
Eugene Robinson: Bringing down a twisted fantasy
... in Columbia in 1961 and kept flying not to honor some gauzy vision of Southern valor but to resist the dismantling of Jim Crow segregation. «Marin Independent Journal, Jul 15»
9
Lady's mantle settles softly over the garden - Independent.ie
Its flowers are individually tiny but carried in hundreds on wiry branching stems. The overall effect is gauzy, quite like the effect of a lace mantle. «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
10
Ojai's Golden Hour - The New York Times
While both men indulge in the sort of gauzy interior excursions that Ojai encourages, they've come to appreciate the town's down-home ... «New York Times, Jul 15»

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