gauzy adjective4 •Resembling gauze; light, thin, translucent.Were she but the daring equestrienne jumping through the flaming hoops, little it would matter to her if her gauzy skirts did catch. — 1907 •(figurative) light; giving the effect of haze •(figurative) vague or elusiveOr perhaps something darker—a raw hunger, a blind ambition wrapped in the gauzy language of service? — 2020 •(figurative) tinged with tenderness and warmth; dewy-eyed, romantic formsgauzier · gauziest